Re: Estimation of duration for VBR MP3's out of whack?

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 13:58, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> I notice that, when I load songs into my playlist, some songs I know are 
> around 4-5 minutes are listed as having 20-40 minutes or more. You start 
> playing them and the duration slowly descends to normal. The songs play OK.
> 
> This is in the CVS version. I distinctly remember the estimates to be 
> much better in previous versions (it would be off by 10% or so). Did 
> something change in this calculation recently?
XMMS will only have proper length estimates for MP3s with a useful Xing
header (containing the number of frames and the number of bytes.)  The
mp3 you noticed problems with probably didn't have one.

FWIW, I haven't updated my CVS tree in a while, so there could be an
actual problem with xmms.

-- 
Ben Winslow <[email protected]>

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