Doesnt load the whole song

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PLOPje
Doesnt load the whole song

Post by PLOPje » Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:26 pm

In itunes it says the song is 6 mins and a bit but when I load it into binkytoy it says its 1 min and a bit. Also it shows a white space as waveform.
dlpinkstah
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file loading stops when a bad frame is found

Post by dlpinkstah » Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:14 pm

What you've observed is the result of there being a bad frame in the middle of the file in question.



BinkyToy (and all MsPinky code) only loads a file up to the point where the bad frame occurs. Other programs (like iTunes) will skip over bad frames. It's easy for them to do that because they only play files in the forward sense. Since MsPinky has to play the files both forwards and backwards, a bad frame disrupts the logic for doing that significantly. Unfortunately, it's not likely the additional complex logic that would be required to skip over all bad frames for both forwards and backwards playback will be implemented soon. Your best bet is to see if some MP3 repair utility can fix the bad frame in that file.
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Post by paulheu » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:29 pm

mp3fixer will take care of bad frames, in fact it'll simply remove them. It comes with source, the executable is windows only though..
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Post by BeatFreq » Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:30 pm

If you're working strictly in a Mac environment, iTunes will also fix the frame if you use its 'Convert selection to mp3' function. Just import the troublesome track as a new mp3 of the same bitrate, delete the original, and you're back in business!
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Thanks for pointing that out.

Post by dlpinkstah » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:49 pm

A very good point! Thanks :lol:



And I guess you could do the same thing with iTunes for Windoze.
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