Re: severe discrepancies in mp3 frame counts

Ben Winslow wrote:
>>I'm seeing drastic discrepancies (an order of magnitude) between the mp3
>>frame counts reported by xmms and the perl module MP3::Info.  This happens 
>>with many, but not all, MP3 files I've tried.  Here are some example files:
> ...
>>
>>...and in xmms, I'm just right-clicking on the track in the playlist and
>>choosing "View File Info."  My goal is to get an accurate FPS for any given
>>mp3, so that my script can resume playback of a paused track, by passing
>>--skip <FPS*elapsedtime> to mpg321.
> 
> If you're not terribly attached to mpg321, madplay has an option to skip
> to a specified time (not frame) in the file and is considered by many to
> produce higher quality audio when decoding.

Oh, fantastic!  Skipping to a particular time is the goal; I was only using 
frames because mpg123/321 wants them instead.  I've never used madplay 
before, and I'm not attached to anything about mpg321, so I'll give madplay 
a try in my application.  Thanks!

-Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/


PS - this is my application:

http://nodivisions.com/tech/systems/musicbox/

And I'm actually having a problem where the first second or so of audio 
output gets skipped sometimes.  I think it's more of a driver problem 
(crappy AC'97 audio) than mpg321, but it'll be nice to have another app to try.