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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: scarnie on August 30, 2003, 10:21:08 pm
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I just purchased MC9, because of the powerful media library - especially 9.1 - great work!!
However, a few songs skip in the same place every time, and although it sounds supspiciously like the audio file is the problem, I can play them in Windows Media Player 9, and there is no skip.
Why is this? I have experimented will all output options, including Direct Sound, ASIO, and Wave and adjusted (increased) the buffer size to no avail.
I have tried turning on / off the clipping in DSP, disabled all DSP plugins, and still it skips...
Do you have any suggestions?
Cheers,
Stuart
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Try playing around with the Playback settings in MC. DirectSound vs. Wav out, for example. Playback buffer too.
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply, but as I mentioned above, I did play around with Direct Sound, Wave and ASIO already. Including the playback buffer size.
If I use the conversion option to write out the wave, then it has the skipping (if I load it into CoolEdit).
However, if I load the original MP3 into CoolEdit, it is fine. No skipping.. How odd is this?
Would the MP3 help?
Cheers,
Stu
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Try using this http://www.geocities.com/mp3utility/ utility on the skipping mp3s.
if it reports sync errors, this could be the reason for the skip.
Wish MC had built in checking for audio files ( *FEATURE REQ* WINK*)
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I've got the same problem, but it happens quite rarely. I'll try the MP3 utility and see what it reports. The last one I found was compressed with Lame3.93 (non-beta) which troubled me a bit. I have considered LAME to be near perfect for MP3! I hope it is simply a MC playback issue.
I've also had some songs playback at the wrong speed (very sloooooow) but play fine in other apps. Anyone else experienced this?
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I think LAME 3.93 is known to be buggy if you are encoding with the --alt-presets. 3.93.1 is recommended instead.
Rob
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Another possibility for skipping songs is hard drive defragmentation.
After u run audio analysis on your collectoin, lots of iD2 tags are written resulting in a (you guessed it) heavily defragmented drive.
i noticed skips ( aka buffering) happening frequently until i defragged the drive after which things were peachy.
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Thanks for all the replies - I tried the utility and it reported no problem with the file. I copied the mp3 to a different machine and tested MC9 (and 9.1 beta) and it still skips..
If I decompress the MP3 to a WAV and then recompress, it is fine in MC.. How strange?? Got to be an issue in the playback code...
What does MC use as it's MP3 decomressor - it's own or Windows media extensions / CODECs?
It appears relatively straightforward to write an input plugin, so I was thinking of trying my own ;-)
Cheers,
Stu
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Could you send one of the files to matt @ jriver.com (no spaces)
Thanks for helping.
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I've sent it, so let me know if you don't get it.
Cheers,
Stu
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I think LAME 3.93 is known to be buggy if you are encoding with the --alt-presets. 3.93.1 is recommended instead.
Rob
Ooops, you're dead right. I meant to say I am using 3.93.1. (with --alt-presets of course ;D )
Hopefully most people have removed 3.93 builds.
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Hi,
I just wanted to give you some feedback.
I wrote my own MP3 input streaming plugin using the BASS.DLL library, and I no longer suffer the skips. So it must be in the in_MP3.dll that's causing the problem. I get some weird skips in other mp3s, that play fine with other players..
Cheers,
Stu