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Screwed up timecodes in MP3?
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:08 pmby Frau_Blucher
Anyone ever seen very long play lengths stated for a song with very low states bit rates. The actual songs are their proper lengths and the quality is certainly higher than the 32 or 48kbps that's stated. It seems sometimes associated with "Exact Audio Copy" encoding. Anyone know of a way to correct? I think it's more an annoyance than anything bad. Thanks in advance.
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Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:57 amby MikeP
Are these VBR files? If so, this is probably due to an improperly encoded header. I think what happens is that a player just reads the bitrate of the first frame of the song (which is typically low) and then computes an estimated song length (which is way
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Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:10 amby fritzb
Mike is right. MP3 Tag Studio should fix your time issue. It rocks! I had the same problem when I first encountered VBR MP3s.
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Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:21 amby Frau_Blucher
Sweet guys...I mean, "oh knowledgable ones". Thanks!