Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:00:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to play new flavor of mp3 files Message-ID: <XFMail.20030421120021.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20030411182758.E99993@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On 12-Apr-2003 Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> I've recently started seeing mp3 files that neither mpg123 nor >> plaympeg can deal with. I find this rather annoying, and would like to >> know if there's something I can use to play them. All my examples are >> rather large, so I won't attach one here. But file identifies them as: >> "MP3, 32 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Stereo". Playing them with mpg123 results >> in errors about not being able to rewind the stream; playing them with >> plaympeg results in a random collection of clicks. > > Yeah, this is the hallmark of VBR coded MP3s. mpg123 won't play them but > xmms, and even the old xaudio tools, can play them. Jumping into this thread a bit late, but... mpg123 *can* play VBR MP3s; I do it all the time. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
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