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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:00:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to play new flavor of mp3 files
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030421120021.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030411182758.E99993@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On 12-Apr-2003 Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
>> I've recently started seeing mp3 files that neither mpg123 nor
>> plaympeg can deal with. I find this rather annoying, and would like to
>> know if there's something I can use to play them. All my examples are
>> rather large, so I won't attach one here. But file identifies them as:
>> "MP3,  32 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Stereo". Playing them with mpg123 results
>> in errors about not being able to rewind the stream; playing them with
>> plaympeg results in a random collection of clicks.
> 
> Yeah, this is the hallmark of VBR coded MP3s. mpg123 won't play them but
> xmms, and even the old xaudio tools, can play them.

Jumping into this thread a bit late, but...

mpg123 *can* play VBR MP3s; I do it all the time.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"



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