i got a cd full of episodes of knight rider today and foobar isnt able to play them complete... it always only plays the 1st half and then simply stops...

if i try to fix mp3 header total time shows only half time too....


but wmp and winamp are able to play the whole files...


probably this is a known issue already and anyone knows what to do about it?

Can't reproduce.
Please post sample files, or post technical info (bitrate, samplerate, number of channels, etc) copied from file info box.

Possibly another case of someone adding ID3v1 tags to the files, then concatenating them.

@zZzZzZz

files are all around 20mb, i will let you know where to get it via PM


bitrate = 64
codec = MP3
channels = 2
samplerate = 22050
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56592623 samples @ 22050Hz



@kode54: dont know what you mean exactly bad muxing of 2 seperate mp3s? or a corrupt tag?

kode54 is right.
This file contains id3v1 tags *inside* it. Blame whoever made it. I can make this kind of stuff play only at cost of making foobar2000 show stream sync errors at the end of every file having id3v1 tags (or at cost of removing stream sync error messages).

http://foobar2000.org/foo_input_std.dll
added special check for id3 tags inside mp3 stream (shows warnings), shouldnt trigger with correct id3 tags (unless there's something that appears to be a valid mpeg frame after the tag).

thanks, its working fine now...

so do i get it right, there is a tag in the middle of the track instead of being at the beginning or the end? is there any way to remove such tag?

With hex editor, or by splitting the file according to tag location displayed by mp3 decoder warning (looks like it currently shows offset where tag ends, it will be changed later).
You need to remove bytes between reported_tag_position-128 and reported_tag_position, according to this foo_input_std build.