Pandora Music File Format

[foobie]

Hello,

I'm new here. Sorry if this is a silly question.

Anyway, I decided today that I was going to try to write a program similar to Pandora's Jar. My main goal was to make a simpler code base and support a wider range of browsers. I started playing around seeing what I could do and...

I came to a point where I thought that I had isolated the media files, but I can't seem to be able to play them. The headers to the files start like "$ftypmp42mp42isom3gp63g2a3gp4]�moovlmvhd", which would make me guess that they're m4a but I can't get them to play. Does anybody who has played with this sort of thing have any input on this?

Here's an example file: http://filehost.justfreespace.com/468b.mp4

Once again, I'm sorry if this is a silly question!

-foobie

[AnonymousCoward]

You didn't trim enough of the header off.

Delete the two cr/lf pairs (0d 0a 0d 0a) at the begining of the file and it will play fine.

Good luck!

[foobie]

Thanks so much! I'll make another post with some code as soon as I get the tagging working :-).