Re: [LAU] best FLAC player?

From: Ray Rashif <schivmeister@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Nov 23 2009 - 21:36:51 EET

2009/11/24 Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:24:58PM +0000, Gwenhwyfaer wrote:
> > On 20/11/2009, hollunder@email-addr-hidden <hollunder@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > >> Is it a variable-rate MP3, by any chance? In which case, it's probably
> > >> dividing the length of the song in bytes by the bitrate of the first
> > >> frame; no really good way to fix that, other than by recording the
> > >> real song length (or mean bitrate) somewhere else.
> > >
> > > I'm sure there is a good way to fix that, just few players implement
> > > it. I'm sure the length can be found in some header or tag or
> > > something. Foobar2k manages to show it correctly, so should others.
> >
> > Well, there is one way to fix it - read the entire MP3 file at once
> > (since you only really care about the length of a file which you
> > already have all of) and counting each frame, without looking at the
> > bitrate. But for players which treat files and streams identically, I
> > guess an iffy time display is quite a way down on the list of sins.
> >
> > Mind, there's no excuse whatsoever for my portable MP3 player getting
> > it wrong. ;-)
>
> If I chop up an MP3 or Ogg file, using mpgsplt or oggz-chop, the time is
> forever wrong on that file. It'll show the start time that it was in the
> ORIGINAL file, not in this new, shorter file, which should start from 00:00.
> And, alas, my Sanza Fuze loses control of its bladder when it sees a file
> starting at 49:32, for example, and refuses to play it.
>
> -ken

Are we looking at a library (low-level) fault here? If so we should staple
and bug a bug report.

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