On 20/11/2009, hollunder@xxxxxx <hollunder@xxxxxx> 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. ;-) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
