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I have hit a bizarre issue while trying to create an audio CD out of a number of mp3 files (all converted to mp3 using dbPoweramp), using Nero 6.6.1.4. as my burning software. No matter what I do, Nero says the files are twice as long as they actually are. For example, Nero says that a 7 minute track is 14 minutes long, and when I do a test play within Nero it is 7 minutes of audio plus 7 minutes of silence. I have double-checked the length of the file by opening it in several different audio players and editors, and I have also checked its ID Tags and properties in Mp3tag and windows explorer. Every program except Nero says that the file is 7 minutes long. When I burn the file to audio CD using Nero, the resulting track is 14 minutes long - 7 minutes of audio and 7 minutes of silence.
I have spent hours trying to work out what is going on, pulling many of my audio files into Nero, and I am now certain that the only files that Nero makes this mistake with are ones which have been converted to mp3 using dbPoweramp.
I have played around with dbPowerAmp conversion settings and discovered that if I select mp3 as the output file type, and set the output frequency to 44.1 khz (CD), then Nero recognises the length of the resulting file correctly. However, if I leave the frequency settings as "Same as source" or specify another frequency (I tried 16 khz and 24 khz) then Nero thinks the resulting file is twice as long as it actually is.
I have double checked this as follows:
I open a 3 minute mp3 file (which Nero is recognising correctly) in dbPowerAmp. I set dbPoweramp as follows: Mp3 (lame); Quality (VBR) "medium"; Encoding: Slow (High Quality); Frequency: As Source; Channels: Auto. Before conversion Nero correctly recognises the length of the track as 3 minutes. After conversion Nero says it is 6 minutes.
I then convert the original track again, using exactly the same settings as above, except that I set the Frequency at 44.1 khz. Nero now correctly recognises the length of the resulting file as 3 minutes.
Does anyone have any ideas what is going on here? It seems to me that it must be some kind of incompatability between dbPowerAmp and Nero, because I have converted 1000s of audio files, and the only ones that Nero has any problem with are the ones converted by dbPowerAmp. (I have tried converting several of the problem files with 2 other conversion programs and both of them create files that Nero has no difficulties with.)
I am using dbPowerAmp version 12 (registered) and Windows XP Pro SP3.
(I use dbPoweramp as my conversion program for a range of file types which other programs don't convert well or at all. I convert all my files to mp3 format to transfer to my Cowon D2 player, and only rarely burn files to audio CD. That is why I am creating an audio CD from mp3 files.)
I have spent hours trying to work out what is going on, pulling many of my audio files into Nero, and I am now certain that the only files that Nero makes this mistake with are ones which have been converted to mp3 using dbPoweramp.
I have played around with dbPowerAmp conversion settings and discovered that if I select mp3 as the output file type, and set the output frequency to 44.1 khz (CD), then Nero recognises the length of the resulting file correctly. However, if I leave the frequency settings as "Same as source" or specify another frequency (I tried 16 khz and 24 khz) then Nero thinks the resulting file is twice as long as it actually is.
I have double checked this as follows:
I open a 3 minute mp3 file (which Nero is recognising correctly) in dbPowerAmp. I set dbPoweramp as follows: Mp3 (lame); Quality (VBR) "medium"; Encoding: Slow (High Quality); Frequency: As Source; Channels: Auto. Before conversion Nero correctly recognises the length of the track as 3 minutes. After conversion Nero says it is 6 minutes.
I then convert the original track again, using exactly the same settings as above, except that I set the Frequency at 44.1 khz. Nero now correctly recognises the length of the resulting file as 3 minutes.
Does anyone have any ideas what is going on here? It seems to me that it must be some kind of incompatability between dbPowerAmp and Nero, because I have converted 1000s of audio files, and the only ones that Nero has any problem with are the ones converted by dbPowerAmp. (I have tried converting several of the problem files with 2 other conversion programs and both of them create files that Nero has no difficulties with.)
I am using dbPowerAmp version 12 (registered) and Windows XP Pro SP3.
(I use dbPoweramp as my conversion program for a range of file types which other programs don't convert well or at all. I convert all my files to mp3 format to transfer to my Cowon D2 player, and only rarely burn files to audio CD. That is why I am creating an audio CD from mp3 files.)
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