Maxi-Patch Win MP3 problems

[Knut]

Hello there!



First of all: MsPinky does a great job! (on all of my soundcards, surprisingly even on the onboard soundcard...)



For me, there's only one problem (using WinXP): some MP3s can't be read and some MP3s even crash Maxi-Patch when trying to load them (same for the Batch Waveform Calculator). I already tried to fix the MP3 files, but no MP3 fix tool I tested made them work.



Does someone know why this happens, which format would work or how to fix it?



Thanks a lot,

Chris

[dlpinkstah]

Maxi-Patch and all the MsPinky apps handle the MP3 files in the same way. Before it starts playing the file, the code scans through all MP3 frames in the file and notes the location of each frame. There are MP3 files that have bad frames, and MsPinky just won't deal with such files. But no file should cause a crash! So if you could please send me one of the crashing files that would be very helpful in getting this problem fixed.



Thanks!



DLP

[paulheu]

mp3fixer will take care of bad frames, in fact it'll simply remove them. It comes with source, the executable is windows only though..

[dlpinkstah]

The new build (01/08/05) of Maxi-Patch contains a bug fix that should prevent the program from crashing when loading a bad MP3 file, or one that has some flaw that MsPinky finds unacceptable

[danny_bar]

any chance for fixing a loading problem that is caused by files that has some other charecters then english/numbers?



portugaze and spanish files won't open at all...