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Title: V11 Many lowbitrate MP3s Fail to Play
Post by: jgourd on May 05, 2005, 06:51:13 am

I have  bunch of low bitrate audiobooks that refuse to play in MC11 but play fine on my portable devices and in MS Media Player. The tags display just fine. The error asks me to check my sound card settings and such. Do you guys want a sample file?

Title: Re: V11 Many lowbitrate MP3s Fail to Play
Post by: Alex B on May 06, 2005, 02:51:01 am

Is it possible that WMP uses the system's default audio driver and MC is configured to use a different driver? For example, ASIO4ALL driver does not work with sample rates below 44.1 kHz. What is the sample rate of your files?

Title: Re: V11 Many lowbitrate MP3s Fail to Play
Post by: Mastiff on May 06, 2005, 05:31:13 am

I've got some audio books @32 kbit, and they play just fine.

Title: Re: V11 Many lowbitrate MP3s Fail to Play
Post by: jgourd on May 21, 2005, 09:05:55 am

I have tried DirectSound and WAV out, nothing works.

MPEG-2 Layer 3
32 Kbit CBR
22.1 Khz Mono

Copyrighted: No
Original: Yes
Protected by CRC: No

ID3v1 Tag: none

ID3v2 Tag: (2038 bytes)
  TALB (Album/Movie/Show title):
  TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Solo..):
  TCON (Content type):
  TIT2 (Title/songname/content..):
  TRCK (Track number/Position ..):
  COMM (Comments):


Media Center Registered 11.0.274 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2671 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 544 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1612 (xpsp2.041207-1145) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1643 (xpsp2.050311-1242) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive F: Memorex 52MAXX 3252AJ     Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive I: SONY    DVD RW DRU-720A   Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive K:   Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive F: Memorex  52MAXX 3252AJ      Addr: 3:0:0  Speed:52  MaxSpeed:52  BurnProof:Yes
  Drive I: SONY     DVD RW DRU-720A    Addr: 3:1:0  Speed:48  MaxSpeed:48  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Title: Re: V11 Many lowbitrate MP3s Fail to Play
Post by: jgourd on May 21, 2005, 09:11:17 am

I fixed it. The DSP settings were set to "Source Sample Rate". Thanks for the suggestions.

Title: Re: V11 Many lowbitrate MP3s Fail to Play
Post by: Alex B on May 21, 2005, 09:32:42 am

It means that some part of your audio system (e.g. soundcard, driver, digital out, amp) that MC uses cannot handle the 22 kHz sample rate.

What is your soundcard and are you using digital out?

I have no problems with playing 22 kHz files (except through the ASIO4ALL driver as I wrote earlier).

If your music files have the standard 44.1 kHz sample rate there is no harm in keeping the 44.1 kHz resampling on all the time.