Bug#795708: /usr/bin/ogg123: ogg123: Metadata_block_picture comments spew base64 all over the screen

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sun Aug 16 12:25:44 UTC 2015


[Andreas Olsson]
> Ogg Vorbis files have the possibility to include cover art as base64
> encoded Metadata_block_picture[1] comments.
>
> ogg123 appear to display these Metadata_block_picture comments the
> same way as any regular text comment. The result being a screen full
> of base64 encoding, blocking out any other comments.

What did you expect it to do with this content, given that it is a text
command line tool?  I am not quite sure what you propose as a fix, as I
did not quite understand the problem.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen



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