Jan 27, 2004 01:40 pm i get this all the time too. even a few mp3s i've made myself show incorrect play times in the player, whether it's winamp or wmp.
no clue
this has been bugging me, any answers cleverer-than-me people?
Posted on Jan 27, 2004 01:31 pm
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why do some of my mp3s come up in media player at a certain length, but when i play them, theyre much much longer?
for example, theres one im listening to now thats about three minutes long, but media player always thinks its 1.16 .
encoding error or something?
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Jan 27, 2004 01:40 pm i get this all the time too. even a few mp3s i've made myself show incorrect play times in the player, whether it's winamp or wmp.
no clue
Jan 27, 2004 02:10 pm I've seen that happen when you encode a 32 bit wave file instead of 16 bit.
Dan
Jan 27, 2004 03:06 pm maybe you're encoding at a variable bit rate, which tends to confuse certain players.
Jan 27, 2004 03:58 pm The time is 'calculated' and 'estimated' by the number of 'frames' in the file. If a frame is, say 0.1ms long (not true, but just for example), and there is 20000 frames, then the guess is that the length would be 2000ms, or rougly 2 seconds long. Now, let's say 1000 of those frames are corrupt, or at a different bit rate, frequency, contain extra tag data, volume control data, etc.., then the length would actually be 1.9 seconds...
It can work in reverse as well, if the first frame is a lower bitrate (usually true in VBR) than the average, etc. etc.
The issue is usually relevent to the codecs used, in both encoding, and decoding.
W.
Feb 01, 2004 11:42 am thanks minkus and waldo.
been wondering that myself
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