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Screwed up timecodes in MP3?

Postby Frau_Blucher » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:08 pm

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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Postby MikeP » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:57 am

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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Postby fritzb » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:10 am

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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Postby Frau_Blucher » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:21 am

Sweet guys...I mean, "oh knowledgable ones". Thanks!
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