Hi all,

Long time lurker, first time poster, please be gentle....

I'm trying to play some mpc files I recently encoded on a windows box within xmms in linux and receiving the following error from the function 'play()':-

'Superframe-size!=1: not supported anymore.
Please decode with command-line tool!'

Encoded with 0.90 binaries from Franks page from within EAC (w2k), external compressor, xtreme.

Trying to play back on xmms 1.2.6 (SuSE 7.3) using libmp+.so (1.9.0).

Decoding and re-encoding (or re-ripping) within linux seems a strange way of solving this and I'd prefer to avoid doing so if at all possible - hence the mail. (A google search turned up a few people with similar problems but the mails were in russian - gah!)

If anyone has any insights I'd be very grateful - probably missing something very obvious, but happy to look foolish if it means I get to listen to these (amazing quality) tunes in linux......

Cheers!

Olly.

You probably have id3v2-tags in your file.

Download the latest plugin and the problem will be solved.

Or just remove the Id3v2 tags. the files will play fine afterwards with any decoder

Jansemanden / YinYang:

Thank you both!

Damn ID3 tags were indeed the problem. Tag option was inadvertently switched
on in EAC. Removing them did the trick, and all is perfect now.....

(Well, almost - having nightmares with ALSA and crackling in the first couple of
seconds of each track. Dumping ALSA almost solves that, but still investigating.
So much to learn being new to linux - but at least I can now play my mpc files
whilst reading the HOWTO's )

Olly.

Just curious which version of ALSA you are using, i used to use the .5 series and then went back to the OSS drivers after continuous crackling when accessing ANY ide device!!
I then gave the latest 0.9 series a blast and it works like a charm.
For the record, my card is a turtle beach santa cruz, the crystal cs46xx series,
Also, have you ever tried ripping udnder LINUX rather than EAC in windows, i went that route about a year and a half ago but since then have done it all in Linux without any problems at all!

Kristian TIppins

kritip:

Thanks for the tip - interesting. I'm also on the .5 series - I'll have a crack at
updating to the 0.9 series hopefully around the time I get my new 2496

And yes, I rip under linux now (grip/cdparanoia/mpc) and haven't had any
problems at all. I'm (slowly but surely) weaning myself off my dependacy on
windows tools.....and it feels good.

Thanks again for the info!

Olly.

euh... I have the same problem... and dunno how to remove the idv2tags...

who knows?

Download "The Tagger". There's an option to delete tags.

>For the record, my card is a turtle beach santa cruz, the crystal cs46xx series,

I too have a soundcard that uses cs46xx module. But it's a TerraTec DMX XFire 1024. I too had problems with crakling sound, the solution for me is to unload the cs46xx module and then reload it again. One can do this somehow in the startup scripts but I haven't figured out how to do this propperly yet.

Regards, David

you'll also want to get the updated xmms plugin...
most recent atm is xmms-musepack 0.98

if you are using debian there is a package waiting for you at rarewares
if not, download/compile the new plugin


later

where can I find the latest plugin source? I cant find it...

newest source is at frank klemm´s webpage:
http://musepack.tk


later

tnx! pitty, its closed due to the stupid patent-issue...

whatever, it'll be ok

debian's apt-get automatically updated the plugin already... Debian rulez

hello,
i have the same errror, i removed the rpm package with yast2 (from sourceforge, 0.94) and copied the *0.98*.so into /usr/X11/lib/xmms/Plugins and /home/yxz/.xmms/Plugins

there are hundreds of errormsgs all over my screen

i dont know anything about encoding / decoding, i just want to play some mpc files with xmms...


so whats a tagger? what are id3 tags?
or how can i solve this problem?

thx for your help

p.s. i use suse 8.2, terratec dmx 6fire, alsa (ice1712)

right. id3tags are the part of a musicfile where the fileinfo like artist and genre are stored. mpc uses a certain kind of tags, but when encoding, you might add a wrong tag-type, which prevents playing te file.
the right tag is APE, the wrong one is ID3v2 (ID3v1 and ID3v1.1/1.2 are ok).

so now you have to remove the ID3v2 tags.

there is a program, called TAGGER, which is a frontend for the program TAG, and it can remove the tags. but it is for win32. I have not been able to remove the tags under linux, cuz I am quite a linux-newbie. so you should ask some linux-guru about that... but the site of tagger is:
http://www.tagger.boereck.de/

good luck!

many thx
i have to remove the tags with windows yet, but it works now.
anyone knows if there is a similar utility for linux?

There is easytag, you can get it at sourceforge. There are a few things that bother me:

1. I can't tag flac files, although it should be able to handle flac

2. Tag type is automatically set with the file type so you can't force to use or remove a specific tag, e.g. if a mpc has id3v2 it won't be detected and you won't be able to remove it. The only exception is id3v2 for mp3 files.

3. I think it writes ape1 instead of ape2 tags to mpc and ape files.

Otherwise it is a great program, very easy and quick to use.

if i am not able to remove id3v2 tags from mpcs its useless in this case, but thx anyway