[ale] Changing ID3 APIC tag, anyone know...

[Jeff Lightner]

Right - but what fun is it to do things the easy way?

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:11 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Changing ID3 APIC tag, anyone know...

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I'm assuming he meant "binary" as opposed to "text".
> 
> So far as I know you COULD use sed on a "binary" file but if it
includes
> internal checksums or checksum bits doing such a change might cause
> issues.
> 
> For real fun you could try doing an od of files and modify them that
> way.  I used to do a hex edit of some things in DOS with Norton
> Utilities back in the dawn of the PC age.

vi -b

I have edited binary executables with this.  Generally to modify text 
strings in the code.

Write a 'hello world' program in c, compile it, then edit the executable

with 'vi -b' and change it to 'Hello World.'

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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