[LAU] best FLAC player?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:11:52 +0000
Gwenhwyfaer <gwenhwyfaer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20/11/2009, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> > [mplayer] reports the length of MP3 files wrong, too - it reports
> > one of my own recordings at 5m08s but the song only runs 2m22s ...
> 
> Is it a variable-rate MP3, by any chance? In which case, it's probably
> dividing the length of the song in bytes by the bitrate of the first
> frame; no really good way to fix that, other than by recording the
> real song length (or mean bitrate) somewhere else.

I'm sure there is a good way to fix that, just few players implement
it. I'm sure the length can be found in some header or tag or
something. Foobar2k manages to show it correctly, so should others.