Not playing with certain MP3'S
hey all
With certain MP3's, Maxi patch refuses to play them. I get the bang message, and in the log window, it just keeps scrolling and saying "too much recursion, line 455".
Its not applicable to any type of MP3. Its not a certain bitrate, or source, or anything. There is no artwork. If i convert it to wav, it works, but I dont have the disc space or time to do that.
So any ideas?
With certain MP3's, Maxi patch refuses to play them. I get the bang message, and in the log window, it just keeps scrolling and saying "too much recursion, line 455".
Its not applicable to any type of MP3. Its not a certain bitrate, or source, or anything. There is no artwork. If i convert it to wav, it works, but I dont have the disc space or time to do that.
So any ideas?
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use iTunes to transcode to new mp3
What I do with mp3's that Maxi-Patch won't handle is to transcode them into a new mp3 using iTunes. Generally speaking, all mp3 created using iTunes should work with Maxi-Patch. To transcode into new mp3, just load in all the mp3 that Maxi-Patch can't play into a special playlist inside iTunes. Then, select all the bad mp3 and choose from the "Advanced" pull-down menu the option "Convert Selection to MP3". It should then do them all at once for you.
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At the moment, about 30% of some of my recent mp3s won't play with the same "bang" shown in the song name text box.
I have tried what dlpinkstah suggests i.e. creating a playlist in iTunes and converting the selection to mp3. But still, not one of these will play.
I would like to better understand why it is challenging for Maxi Patch to play these when they will play fine in every other media player.
Out of interest, converting them to a mov in Quicktime will allow these to play, but that's not ideal.
I have tried what dlpinkstah suggests i.e. creating a playlist in iTunes and converting the selection to mp3. But still, not one of these will play.
I would like to better understand why it is challenging for Maxi Patch to play these when they will play fine in every other media player.
Out of interest, converting them to a mov in Quicktime will allow these to play, but that's not ideal.
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NO album arwork, please!
Please also remove album artwork from all mp3's that you want to load into Maxi-Patch. Eventually I'll have a fix so that we can reliably read mp3's with the inserted artwork, but for now you'll need to get rid of that in order to reliably load mp3's into the program.
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Just to add to the list of problematic mp3s, I was converting some files tonight and found that encoding them at 48 khz (which I wasn't even trying to do), instead of 44.1 khz gave Pinky VST fits, very garbled, terrible reading of the waveform.
Encoded them at 44.1 khz and no problems, even at 320 kpbs.
Encoded them at 44.1 khz and no problems, even at 320 kpbs.
same problem...
I'm having similar issues with maxipatchAO, I've tried removing the album artwork...didn't work. Going to try and batch re-encode them...
I really hope this resolves the issue...almost half of my collection isn't loading up
I really hope this resolves the issue...almost half of my collection isn't loading up
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I'll try to batch re-encode them from itunes first and let you know if that fixes it.dlpinkstah wrote:It would really help if you can email to me, or put someplace on a server for download, some of these mp3's that are problematic. As I said previously, all of my current collection is loading and playing fine for me. If I don't have some of the ones that won't load then I can't fix the problem.
If that doesn't work...I'll email one of the 'bad' ones to you.
BTW I'm working with maxipatch AO.
Thanks.
what am I doing wrong?
robsoul boy - instrumental hangs the batch converter and jacobino cant be played in maxipatchAO whatsoever, dragging it from a folder nor selecting it from the drop down does anything...honeo wrote:it could not be so hard to "ignore" the header of the mp3 while reading the file, don't konw if your only using max for te app. but with c or c++ it's not so difficult to read the header an just loading the audio into a buffer, would be great if trhe artwork could be extracted
Please help.
The only thing I can think of that I did wrong during the whole setup...was that I installed quicktime AFTER runnint maxipatch for the first time...I don't think this could pose a problem, but you never know.
Any tips or advice is appreaciated...
find the tracks here...
http://pashtek.fun-in-the-murky.com/aud ... %20Mix.mp3
http://pashtek.fun-in-the-murky.com/aud ... %20Mix.mp3
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You must be using the Winblows PC version. Both of these files load and play perfectly on the mac OSX version just as they are. I guess this means I have some more debugging to do on the PC version. However, even on the PC I just found that re-encoding as MP3 using iTunes creates a new MP3 that loads and plays just fine. So is there a reason you won't use iTunes to re-encode your MP3 that won't work? iTunes is a free, and very easy-to-use program. It should be a very easy way to work around this bug (temporarily) until I can (hopefully) fix it for you Windoze people.
In the future, when you post a bug report, please be sure to provide a full description of your system.
In the future, when you post a bug report, please be sure to provide a full description of your system.
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