I've created a large M3U playlist for my Ipod of about 400 songs and I've noticed a strange thing happening with several songs:

when added, the song show's up fine, plays alright etc.

I save this playlist (file date is updated)

I start foobar again with the same playlist and sort by artist

about 8 songs show up on top with a lenght of zero!

I can't play them songs because foobar says that the filename is incorrect. Somehow the filename has been changed now I've reloaded the list: normally the filename is tracknumber - songname but now foobar thinks it is:

tracknumber songname (so the - is gone!)

This only happens with this handfull of songs, and no matter how often I add them, the same thing keeps on happening but only with these couple of songs from two artists. Several files by the same artists which were ripped in the same session work fine so I can't blame the mp3 encoder here (which was lame 3.90).

I've viewed the playlist and it seems that several songs have been added without the - but the last song which I tried has a correct filename & path but still shows up as an unplayable entry because foobar tries to load the song without the -

I'm running XP SP1, I've checked the directory structure for permissions and errors and all headers have been processed with ID3-TagIT to be IDv2 only. I'm currently running Foobar 0.7 RC8 but several previous versions had the same behaviour.

I guess that it is a bug?


Wanne.

Can't reproduce.
Exact error message ? Exact full path of file that didn't play after reloading playlist ? Exact full path of playlist file ? Sample "corrupted" playlist file ?

This is the error which is displayed by foobar:

ERROR (CORE) : error opening file for playback :
INFO (CORE) : location: "file://F:\audio\mp3s\Tony Joe White\Lake Placid Blues\09 Wamus Kitty.mp3" (0)

after I add the file again it displays the following (correct) info about this file

F:\audio\mp3s\Tony Joe White\Lake Placid Blues\09 - Wamus Kitty.mp3

the m3u file is located in f:\audio\mp3s and when I check it it it displays:

Tony Joe White\Lake Placid Blues\09 - Wamus Kitty.mp3

which is correct,

however, when I load it again and sort by artist the song reappears on top with the following file information:


ERROR (CORE) : Unable to query info on: file://F:\audio\mp3s\Tony Joe White\Lake Placid Blues\09 Wamus Kitty.mp3


The - is gone again! So it seems that the "corruption" happens on loading the playlist.

Now, when I save the playlist again it displays:

Tony Joe White\Lake Placid Blues\09 Wamus Kitty.mp3

Also without the -


I hope that you can reproduce the problem. If I can e-mail you anything, please let me know.

I found the solution!

It's the foo_id3v2.dll which is causing this behaviour! (131.072 1-8-2003)

Is this plugin 'feeding' foobar wrong information on certain files....? I guess it is...

Well, I have no bloody idea how foo_id3v2 could possibly interfere with playlist loading; this makes absolutely no sense to me. Recreated the directory structure on my harddrive but can't reproduce it no matter what, will try again with foo_id3v2 installed later.

I've done some further testing and it seems that I can't reproduce the bug if I use an other filelocation or playlist.

However, I've created a copy of the file with all data replaced with silence which has the exact same behaviour.

I can e-mail you an archive with the playlist further containing the two subdirectories and the silent mp3 file. So no copyright problems here as you would only get an mp3 file containing pure silence.

I think that chances are small that you can reproduce the bug without this archive as only 6 files of the 400 files have this problem.

After loading I can easily spot the problem files as they're set for a lenght of 0:00 or the time is blank.