Mp3 file prob - won't play in some players

hussey · 23-01-2003 9:28am #1

I have an mp3, when I tried to play it in music match, it wouldn't play
I read the tag file ok. I opened it with winamp, again no luck, it did read the tag, and even read the length of time (which musicmatch didn't), I tried to open it with Win Media Player it it played fine, read all tags etc. I then tried playing it in my creative zen mp3 player and that work fine so please help?

Saruman · 23-01-2003 10:31am

Dunno but i would imagine there is some copyright protection in place or something like that. If you are that bothered... do it again.. decode it to wav and re-encode it and make sure no copyright is in place.. best to use an encoder that does not use copyright at all.

hussey · 23-01-2003 10:34am

one problem with that is that I lost the original cd .....

scojones · 23-01-2003 10:50am

Are you sure it's .mp3 and not .wma?

hussey · 23-01-2003 10:55am

Originally posted by sjones
Are you sure it's .mp3 and not .wma?

Edit* It uses mp3 filters .. so I presume its mp3

I know this cause I renemed it to .wma and dragged it in
and it have codec in use Xing Mp3

Saruman · 23-01-2003 10:58am

Originally posted by hussey
one problem with that is that I lost the original cd .....

Thats not what i said.. there are plenty of progs out there to turn the mp3 into Wav.. then you can encode it again!!

hussey · 23-01-2003 11:01am

Originally posted by Saruman
Thats not what i said.. there are plenty of progs out there to turn the mp3 into Wav.. then you can encode it again!!

so ya did, the the prog I use (musicmatch) wont recognise it!!
so I'll just have to use that

DiscoStu · 23-01-2003 11:11am

you dont need to convert it back to wav. use lame to re-encode it. and if you dont like the command promt just d/l CDex and use the re-encode commpressed audio files option. as easy as falling off a log.

Why use Xing? Lame is better anyway

scojones · 23-01-2003 11:17am

I didn't know Lame was for windows and for Linux. I use lame to encode all my mp3s. Have you noticed that when you re-encode an mp3 it makes the filesize smaller?

elexes · 23-01-2003 12:18pm

music match sux it usualy mess's things up for me . use eac ( exact audio copy ) cant rember the site i got it from but you shoudl find it easy enough

hussey · 23-01-2003 12:21pm

I use MMJB, as it rips at between 7-10x

It is also great for tagging multiple songs, renaming song, etc

I tried that CDex and that worked perfect

Gerry · 23-01-2003 12:56pm

www.exactaudiocopy.de

Offy · 23-01-2003 1:17pm

I also use MMJB with no probs.

Mp3 file prob - won't play in some players

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