still unable to play converted music

[yulog]

im still having trouble i converted cds to mp3 files and burned to a cdr these played fine in my car home and portable mp3 player i upgraded to the new version and now the cds will play in my car and home player but my portable reads NOT MP3,somesongs play during the middle of the disc but most wont play---already tried different cdrs tried another portable(brand new at best buy) nothing works--the only thing i changed was upgrading to version 9 can anyone help---thanks mike

[Spoon]

What is your portable player?

[Unregistered]

it is a sony-zs-x3cp--cd/mp3 boombox

[yulog]

sony portable

my car player is also a sony its a cdx-757mx-pretty much everything has played in that----mike

[Spoon]

You could try looking in Support >> dMC there you can install an older version of Lame, or even go to Codec central and install 'Blade'

[Unregistered]

I have seen the same issue.

I have experienced the same issue with my Sony Boombox (same model). If I use the NeroMedia player to convert the same CD, the Sony will play it.

[Unregistered]

more input

I found the following:
--- Steve Lhomme <steve.lhomme@free.fr> wrote:
>Actually it's a bug of the application using the LAME DLL. At the end of
>the encoding the application should ask LAME for the VBR frame and write
>it at the start of the file. Just switch to a good LAME DLL user app

I would assume that this means that DbpowerAMP converter needs to be updated and/or the Sony is too sensitive.

[Spoon]

I does ask Lame to write the VBR header, and even so if you create Constant Bitrate Files (CBR) there will be no VBR Header, I am guessing those will not work either.

[Unregistered]

more input2

From doing a little investigation on the internet, I found that, the issue appears to be that the dBpowerAMP Music Converter is putting a frame filled with zeros at the start of an MP3. The sony X3CP does not like this and assumes the file is something other than an MP3 when it sees the leading zeros.

Is there a reason dBpowerAMP is putting the frame with zeros at the start? I have tried other converters and have not had this problem.

I tried the Blade codec with dbPowerAMP converter and those files would play in the Sony. Is there a reason the Lame codec seems to be the codec that is recommended over Blade?

[Spoon]

New versons of Lame do this, don't know why...

[yulog]

old lame works!

i downloaded the old lame and it seems to be working thanks for all the info----mike

[Unregistered]

What was the version number that worked for you?

Have you tried the most recent version (3.94)?