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On 20/11/2009, hollunder@gmx.at  wrote:

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>> Is it a variable-rate MP3, by any chance? In which case, it's probably

>> dividing the length of the song in bytes by the bitrate of the first

>> frame; no really good way to fix that, other than by recording the

>> real song length (or mean bitrate) somewhere else.

>

> I'm sure there is a good way to fix that, just few players implement

> it. I'm sure the length can be found in some header or tag or

> something. Foobar2k manages to show it correctly, so should others.

Well, there is one way to fix it - read the entire MP3 file at once

(since you only really care about the length of a file which you

already have all of) and counting each frame, without looking at the

bitrate. But for players which treat files and streams identically, I

guess an iffy time display is quite a way down on the list of sins.
Mind, there's no excuse whatsoever for my portable MP3 player getting

it wrong. ;-)

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