Winamp Goof Up ???

[thrash_metal]

This is wht happened when i was playin a song in winamp . i paused at the last second then ... c the image and u will understand ! The track is of 6:35 and winamp is showing me 6:43 !! Where did these extra seconds come from ???

[a_to_z123]

Well I also have some songs which show more time in the playlist than in the seek bar!

Well I dunno what's the problem, but I think its a bug in one of the DLL files of Winamp.

If u set the time to countdown then when the song starts, the time rushes quickly and comes to the current time!

Can someone enlighten us!

[kalpik]

Its cause the file you are playing is a VBR (Variable Bitrate) file. The exact playing time of a VBR cannot be calculated!

[shwetanshu]

man which version u r using?? it looks to be a really old version, might be due to some bugs in that version.

[Ashis]

Well It some time happens.
It also happened with Windows Media Player!

[Vishal Gupta]

May be these extra seconds r for playing delay the song.
I think Winamp has a feature of Crossfade, which adds predefined time delay between each track.

[legolas]

Originally Posted by Vishal Gupta

May be these extra seconds r for playing delay the song.
I think Winamp has a feature of Crossfade, which adds predefined time delay between each track.

that actually lowers the sound of the current track u r playing that many seconds before it ends... it cant in anywyas get extended by time > the track time. I guess a reasonable answer is with the VBR ???? but r all audio files vbr?

/legolas

[expertno.1]

Hi legolas

but r all audio files vbr?

No all files are not vbr

At the time of encoding the file you have to choose which one i.e
1)CBR
2)VBR

and in this case its VBR thats why its shwoing like this

This is wht happened when i was playin a song in winamp . i paused at the last second then ... c the image and u will understand ! The track is of 6:35 and winamp is showing me 6:43 !! Where did these extra seconds come from ???

did you tried it again ?
did it happend again ?
please psot here

Thanks
Regards...
Expertno.1

[kalpik]

@ expertno.1: There is also ABR! (Average Bitrate).

And im pretty damn sure that the discrepancy in the playing time is due to VBR.

Ok... lemme explain.

say u have an MP3 encoded @ 128 kbps. Then, for every second of audio in the track, the file will take 128 kilo bits. Thus you can calculate the playing time by knowing the file size. For example, if the file size is 1280 kilo bits, then the playing time is 10 seconds. This is the case of CBR (Constant Bitrate).

In case of VBR, the bitrate keeps on changing, so you cannot be very sure of the playing time, by looking at the file size.

[thrash_metal]

This song is of a constant bitrate ! and im using the latest version only with the classic look ! I preferr it this way !

[kalpik]

Then i guess the file is corrupt (the song i mean, not Winamp)

[QwertyManiac]

but thrash says that the song plays well, so it cant be corrupted....

[kalpik]

Sometimes the header is corrupt (the place where all the information about the MP3 is stored) so it will play just well.

[q3_abhi]

This happened with me when i converted .RM files to .MP3. 3 min song was shown as 17 min song.
This was becoz i encoded them to VBR.

[thrash_metal]

Actually i tried doing the same thing again -- pausing at the last min but it showed 6:32 the error didnt repeat ! I dont think that the file/header is corrupt ! maybe a problem with winamp itself !