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demogorge

Oct 14 2003, 22:12

I have a file that will not play in foobar or winamp3 (uninstalled winamp2 when I discovered foobar

). It will play in Windows Media Player (using l3codecx.ax) and in my nomad mp3 player.

I can split it with mega mp3 splitter and it's still broke, but if I use BeSplit it plays fine with this message:

CODE

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSplit -----
[00:00:00:000] | Input : D:\BeSweetv1.4\Split21.mp3
[00:00:00:000] | Source Sample-Rate: 44.1KHz
[00:00:00:000] | Channels Count: 1, Bitrate: 24kbps
[00:00:00:000] | Output : D:\BeSweetv1.4\Split21_Fixed.mp3
[00:00:00:000] +---------------------
[00:00:00:417] Stream error : Sync found after 128 bytes
[00:15:04:176] | Writing D:\BeSweetv1.4\Split21_Fixed.mp3
[00:15:04:176] +---------------------
[00:15:04:176] Operation Completed !
[00:00:04:000] <-- Process Duration

Ok so this is a bad but easily fixable file. Should foobar be able to play this or is it better not to bother with bad files?

kode54

Oct 15 2003, 09:13

Upload the file here.

demogorge

Oct 15 2003, 22:07

Allright thanks. The file is here.

neoufo51

Oct 16 2003, 00:30

Interesting...

Foobar stops like a rock after a nanosecond.
BSplayer .86 gets a watery sound for the whole playback.
WMP9 plays back fine. (seems to be a Harry Potter audiobook)
MPC 6.4.6.7. with the MAD filter enabled also plays back fine.

Looks like an issue to be addressed in 0.7.2.

criZZb

Oct 16 2003, 01:56

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Stream error : Sync found after 128 bytes

That's because this file seems to be 2 concatenated files. Those 128 bytes is id3v1 tag!

And that's why the file is broken

Foobar stops playing it as soon as it tracks the tag...

demogorge

Oct 16 2003, 11:31

Well I don't know if you can say the file is broken, since the file can be played in other players.

Yes there is lots of bad splitting and concatenation at work. My nomad muvo does not resume (or seek very well) :'( so I needed to split the source into manageable chunks.

But you are correct, an id3 tag is found at 0x573.

Case

Oct 16 2003, 11:34

QUOTE(demogorge @ Oct 16 2003, 08:31 PM)

Well I don't know if you can say the file is broken, since the file can be played in other players.

I won't comment on brokeness of the file but the reason why foobar won't fully play anymore such mp3s is added gapless support. It wouldn't work if foobar didn't respect length infos in mp3 files.

demogorge

Oct 17 2003, 06:39

Then that goes back to my OP. Will foobar support this file or not bother because it is bad?

criZZb

Oct 20 2003, 07:20

I think Case has cleared it...

demogorge

Oct 20 2003, 20:52

Is that correct? The file plays fine in winamp2 with gapless support...

/\/ephaestous

Oct 20 2003, 23:11

QUOTE(demogorge @ Oct 20 2003, 09:52 PM)

Is that correct? The file plays fine in winamp2 with gapless support...

winamp2 gapless support is not the same as in Foobar, winamp's gapless support is more like the Gap Killer plugin.

you can fix it with an hex editor and 'Fix Mp3 header'

People shouldn't use Copy /b for mp3 files...

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