[LAU] best FLAC player?

[Aaron L.]

I've noticed that these time issues are the problems with Songbird choking
on my FLAC files as well.  If a song is listed as being 15 days, 6 hours and
50 minutes long, we got problems.......

I haven't dug too far into it but I'm thinking that it's an issue with how
the song gets tagged??

-aaron

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/11/24 Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org>
>
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:24:58PM +0000, Gwenhwyfaer wrote:
>> > On 20/11/2009, hollunder at gmx.at <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
>> > >> 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.
>> >
>> > Well, there is one way to fix it - read the entire MP3 file at once
>> > (since you only really care about the length of a file which you
>> > already have all of) and counting each frame, without looking at the
>> > bitrate. But for players which treat files and streams identically, I
>> > guess an iffy time display is quite a way down on the list of sins.
>> >
>> > Mind, there's no excuse whatsoever for my portable MP3 player getting
>> > it wrong. ;-)
>>
>> If I chop up an MP3 or Ogg file, using mpgsplt or oggz-chop, the time is
>> forever wrong on that file. It'll show the start time that it was in the
>> ORIGINAL file, not in this new, shorter file, which should start from 00:00.
>> And, alas, my Sanza Fuze loses control of its bladder when it sees a file
>> starting at 49:32, for example, and refuses to play it.
>>
>> -ken
>
>
> Are we looking at a library (low-level) fault here? If so we should staple
> and bug a bug report.
>
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