>>> Hey, at least he didn't say it's obviously impossible. :-)
>>
>> No - just ludicrously difficult. ;-)
> 
> Funny how it took me about 30 mins of research and coding to come up 
> with a working program, when previously I didn't know a single thing 
> about it.  It didn't require any skills beyond being able to set up a 
> struct and calling windows API functions.

So I'm guessing you know an awful lot more about C than I do.

>> Still, I would also guess that, say, CDex is going to write identical 
>> WAV files for every track ripped. So I can probably just go measure 
>> how many bytes the header is, and skip that...
> 
> IIRC that's exactly what I did at some point previously.  I guessed/knew 
> the samples were in 16bit stereo format, so just took 4 bytes at a time 
> from the file and experimented with the order until the result wasn't 
> white noise!

I suppose you could just open the file in a hex editor and look for the 
chunk names.

Oh, wait - you'd need a hex editor to do that...

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