MPEG audio with emphasis not played

[Christophe Massiot]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Christophe Massiot wrote:

>Is there any reason for such a discrimination on the 'emphasis' ?

Yes there is. MPEG audio uses only a 12-bit sync word, which is very often
emulated. In case you take the stream at a random place (such as when reading
from a network), you may quite well catch an emulated sync word. So we
thought using 2 extra bits would be surer, but apparently we can't.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.