VBR MP3 lengths incorrectly reported

[Ollie]

I posted a thread about this a while back, but both the thread and my user account seem to have gone (I had to re-register).

Anyway, basically I was saying that dAP doesn't show the correct times for VBR MP3s and you were saying it should be reading the correct times from the ID3 tags. Well I've done a bit of experimentation and discovered that it shows the correct times for VBR MP3s with ID3 v1 tags, but not with ID3 v2 tags. So I thought I'd post to help you track down the problem.

(Using LAME to encode, and EAC was adding the v2 tags.)

[Spoon]

Could you try dMC creating V2 Tagged vbr mp3 files, ta.

[Ollie]

Seems to work OK. But I'd sooner use EAC to rip; it gives me more control over how to encode and what to put in the tag.

I'll just stick to using v1.1 tags for now.

[Spoon]

Please email a smallish mp3 created file with the tag that does not work to dbpoweramp@dbpoweramp.com

[Ollie]

difficult - the shorter the mp3 file, the less likely it is that the time will show up wrong. So this will have to wait until I have time to try a few to find one which shows the problem. How small does it need to be?

[Spoon]

About 4MB would be fine.

[Ollie]

Oh, that's easy then. I thought you meant a few hundred KB. I'm sending you a 1.78MB one now.

I've a feeling it will turn out that EAC isn't writing properly compliant ID3v2 tags.

[Spoon]

Thanks I will take a look at it.

[dsieber]

It's not just EAC. I have some that were encoded with CDex and LAME, using the r3mix setting, and the times are displayed incorrectly in dAP.