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Anyone know why I would be getting this error?

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blah69:

--- Quote from: Chris on December 21, 2007, 12:22:59 pm ---My stock answer for these is that they are not encoded correctly.  If you run an MP3 tester against these I'm sure you'll find header errors of some sort; Windows Media Player may be be able to handle them but the audio library I am using is not.  Unfortunately, there is little I can do about these, at least in the short term.

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The interesting part, and I have now seen this with about 5 different CDs, is that they work for a time and then it is like they get corrupted and cause a crash unless they are removed. 

Chris:

--- Quote from: blah69 on December 21, 2007, 02:05:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on December 21, 2007, 12:22:59 pm ---My stock answer for these is that they are not encoded correctly.  If you run an MP3 tester against these I'm sure you'll find header errors of some sort; Windows Media Player may be be able to handle them but the audio library I am using is not.  Unfortunately, there is little I can do about these, at least in the short term.

--- End quote ---

The interesting part, and I have now seen this with about 5 different CDs, is that they work for a time and then it is like they get corrupted and cause a crash unless they are removed. 

--- End quote ---
Well that throws a monkey wrench in my theory.  Usually the bad MP3 is caused by an encoder that isn't quite up to standards.  I've never seen a working one go bad.

The specific error message indicates that I could physically load the file and hand it off to the decoding library but the library errored out trying to process it.  Are you also playing these MP3 files in a player that might be tinkering with the MP3 header every time it plays, such as updating a play count, or only using them with WinCab?

blah69:

--- Quote from: Chris on December 21, 2007, 02:17:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: blah69 on December 21, 2007, 02:05:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on December 21, 2007, 12:22:59 pm ---My stock answer for these is that they are not encoded correctly.  If you run an MP3 tester against these I'm sure you'll find header errors of some sort; Windows Media Player may be be able to handle them but the audio library I am using is not.  Unfortunately, there is little I can do about these, at least in the short term.

--- End quote ---

The interesting part, and I have now seen this with about 5 different CDs, is that they work for a time and then it is like they get corrupted and cause a crash unless they are removed. 

--- End quote ---
Well that throws a monkey wrench in my theory.  Usually the bad MP3 is caused by an encoder that isn't quite up to standards.  I've never seen a working one go bad.

The specific error message indicates that I could physically load the file and hand it off to the decoding library but the library errored out trying to process it.  Are you also playing these MP3 files in a player that might be tinkering with the MP3 header every time it plays, such as updating a play count, or only using them with WinCab?

--- End quote ---

That is a possibility.  I have all of the music on an external hard drive and I occasionally take the HD and hook it to another computer.  If that is the case, is there a way to uncorrupt these files?

Chris:
Well step one is to see if this is what's actually happening.  Find an MP3 that plays properly in WinCab, play it with the other player a few times, then try it in WinCab again.

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