Some songs show wrong lenght

Troubadour · Post by **Troubadour** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:09 am

Hello everyone,
I clicked on the song lenght header to sort my library by song lenght; I wanted to see what were the longest among them.

I spotted many that should not belong at the end of the list. In the main view area as well as in now playing, they show 31;04 for instance, but in the mm player, they show correct at around 3min.

Those ones are so much off they're easy to spot, but I am wondering if the problem could be more widespread.

Anyone has any idea what is causing this, & obviously if there's a way to correct this?

tia

Post by **Peke** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:40 am

Hmmm. I do not remember what MM version has occasional problems with some MP3 Files but I think that it fixed in latest versions.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:52 am

There used to be a VBR header problem, but I thought this had been fixed as well. What encoding format are the songs?

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:29 am

No, it's not (completely) fixed. I'm having the same problems... at least with VBR files.

To fix incorrect VBR song length, use VBRFix: http://www.willwap.co.uk/Programs/vbrfix.php

Another interesting thread: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5565

Cheers
Steegy

Troubadour · Post by **Troubadour** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:03 am

Yes all the affected songs seem to be in vbr.
Will try the fix & let you know...
THANKS

Troubadour · Post by **Troubadour** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:18 am

Indeed, very good thread, tks Steegy!

This applies to me as well:

In many cases this
causes the track to be cutoff before the end

It was driving me crazy to keep hearing truncated songs that I was sure were OK before. I may even have deleted some already before double-checking with another player.

Troubadour · Post by **Troubadour** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:27 am

Sorry to be a pest but...

is there a way for me to do a search & find on vbr encoded files specifically?

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:41 am

You can use the following MagicNodes mask:

Code: Select all

Encodings\<format>\<vbr>\<bitrate>

You can find more info on MagicNodes in the scripting forum.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:09 am

You can use the following Magic Nodes specification:

Code: Select all

VBR Files|SQL filter:VBR=1|show tracks:no

In case you don't want to install Magic Nodes (

), you can also use this little line of VBScript:

Code: Select all

SDB.MainTracksWindow.AddTracksFromQuery("AND VBR = 1")

Cheers
Steegy

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:12 am

Damned, too late

As you can see, I'm not very "Magic Nodes" literate

Troubadour · Post by **Troubadour** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:28 am

Actually, I'm totally green to both magic nodes & vbs scripting, I don't know what they are, or how to use them.

I have to go now, will be back in about 10hrs or so, so no hurry here.

And thanks both!

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:12 pm

The magic node I posted above is very useful, it shows the various file types (mp3, wma, wav, etc), then by cbr/vbr, then by bitrate.

Makes it very easy to see what files are what and to find odd files/bitrates.

I used it initially to go thru my library and clear out older crappy versions of songs with low bitrates and to get rid of wma files.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:57 pm

Magic Nodes script thread: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3358
(with a lot of explanation and examples, be sure to visit the author's website linked in the thread)

If you still would have problems installing it: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6345

BTW: Installing Magic Nodes is certainly worth the little effort. It's the most advanced script I have seen around here.

Cheers
Steegy