Bugzilla – Bug 3852
static blips on sb3 in some eMusic.com mp3s
Last modified: 2008-12-18 11:41:57 UTC
I found a few mp3 files in my library that were downloaded from emusic in may 2003 and have a few frames of static in them when played back on my sb2. other players handle them just fine without going zappy (mpg321, xmms and itunes at least). a couple of problematic mp3 files (do not redistribute or add to any libraries): http://electricrain.com/greg/static-blip-mp3s-from-emusic.zip fwiw, i just redownloaded the files from emusic, they still have the problem.
Try these files with fw59 and fw28
The problems I heard were at the transition from track 9 to track 10, then at around 5:30 on track 10 there was a problem so bad that the SB3 gave up and skipped ahead to the next track. I was indeed able to play the tracks on other MP3 player without problems, which is of course no guarantee that they're valid MP3s. :)
This may be a slimserver issue scanning the tracks. The audio_offset is very low track 9 = 310 bytes and track 10 = 98 bytes. I'm not sure why playback is stopping early on track 10, but the mp3 decoder in the firmware is not giving an error it appears that the slimserver is closing the stream.
QA: please test this with 7.0, the MP3 scanning has been improved.
When the now playing setting is set to display the time remaining on the track (track 9), something very bizarre happens with Winamp. The time jumps around particularly at the beginning of the track. It starts 2:27, then 2:25, back to 2:27, etc etc for about 5 seconds. Squeezebox just displays the track as 2 minutes. Track 10 Windows believes is 5:03, SqueezeCenter (7.0) believes its 13:15, and Winamp believes its 4:39, which is correct. With SC7 I did hear a small click between tracks, I also heard this click with Winamp. The transition click is considerably worse with SC 6.5.5 - 15788 than it is with SC 7.0 - 15792.
So ross, are the blips inside the track are fixed in 7.0? If so, we should close the bug and open a new one concerning the jumpy time.
Ping Ross.
Just tested again with SC 7.0 - 16819, I'm no longer seeing the strange time jump. I'm going to mark this as works for me, if anyone sees this again please feel free to reopen.
This bug has recently been fixed in the latest release of SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Please try that version, if you still see the error, then reopen this bug. To download this version, please navigate to: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html