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photoguy
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_ 		13. April 2004 @ 04:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a very wierd issue.

I have several songs which came from friends, via newsgroups, that will play fine through media player and music match but the duration of the song is being shown incorrectly. When I go to burn the song to a cd, the song is cut short to the incorrect duration.

For example:

Song "A" is 4 minutes in length. When I play the song on my computer, it plays for 4 minutes. The duration of the song shows as 2:36. When I burn the song, only 2:36 burns to the cd.

I've tried veritas and roxio for burning. I have not edited the files. They are all mp3s from various artist acquired at various times. Running XP pro.

Any ideas?
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dougal58
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_ 		13. April 2004 @ 04:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi photoguy.
I had this problem before,If you convert the file to wave and convert back again to mp3 this fixes it,If you have'nt got a converter look on google for mp3 to wave converter you should get a free trial.
Hope this helps you.
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tigre
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_ 		13. April 2004 @ 05:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
By converting to .wav and back to mp3 you will degrade sound quality without a good reason. Don't do this!

Better try to fix the mp3s, e.g. using programs like VBRFix or foobar2000 - special installer (song in playlist -> rightclick -> Fix MP3 header; checking "Rebuild entire stream" might be necessary. Make sure you put some backup copies of your mp3s in a separate folder before you start processing.

If you don't care much about shown playback times and just want to burn without problems, you can use foobar2000 to decode to .wav (rightclick -> convert ...), burn the .wavs to audio CD and delete the .wavs afterwards.

For burning mp3s from various sources to one CD, looking into mp3Gain might be a good idea. Using foobar2000 replaygain feature can do the same (get equal perceived volume from all tracks in a compilation) on decoding to .wav and playback.
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photoguy
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_ 		13. April 2004 @ 09:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks Tigre,

Any idea where to find VBRfix. I've looked all over and the site seems to be down.

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_ 		13. April 2004 @ 11:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
NEVERMIND!!!!

I found it in alt.binaries.sounds.utilities.

It's gonna' be a good day.

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