MP3 recognition

[Guest mobile monkey]

I have just pulled over a load of MP3s from my PC to SPVe100, and noticed that the infamous Freelove on the freelove freeway by Mr David of Brent (The Office) does not work. It also happens with a couple of others. Basically, on the Windows Media - select option the Freelove MP3 file shows up as being present, I can even view the properties of the file. However when it comes to play the file it doesn't recognise it. It plays the track before and then skips to the track afterwards. Has anyone else had such issues? Or know of any solutions?

Cheers me dears

MM

[Guest moo_ski_doo]

There's a lot of dodgy (badly encoded) MP3s out there, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the problem - did you download it from an unknown source on the Internet? Some players are more tolerant of this than others; Pocket Media Player might be one of those that's less tolerant. If you ripped / encoded the MP3 yourself I don't know what the problem is...

[Guest mobile monkey]

I did get it from an unknown source, so that is perhaps the problem then. How would I go about creating my own MP3 of that from the DVD of the Office?

[Guest siu99spj]

There's so many ways you couyld do that we'd be here for hours. Do you have a DVD drive on/in your PC?

If so, you could rip off the audio tracks and cut up the bits you want.

If not, connect your DVD players audio output to your sound cards lin in and record that. There's also loads of other ways too, but I'm sure you can guess most of them.

You could also trying playing the files (assuming your phone's decerted, in PocketMVP. That seems to be more tolerant of my MP3's as well as any extra high bit-rate ones I may have.

[Guest moo_ski_doo]

Also, a lot of rippers (eg. CDEx - the one I use :lol: ) and other sound utilities have conversion tools to allow you to convert to and from various formats. You might be able to convert the MP3 to another format (eg. WAV) and then back to MP3. If the utility you use normally generates playable MP3s, this should have the effect of cleaning the MP3 and making it playable again.