MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby torpesco on Wed May 11, 2011 1:08 am

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/idea ... _53583.mp3

For some reason, this MP3 file and the two before it in the series showed 27 minutes when they are more like 50. Made pause/resume do weird things. BlackBerry media player shows the correct length.

Using 3.0.6 on Pearl 3G with OS 6.
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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby marwatk on Tue May 17, 2011 3:31 pm

:/ Hmm, PT gets the length from the BBMP, so not sure what's up there. What does seeking do?

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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby torpesco on Tue May 17, 2011 6:46 pm

It did some odd things. Seeking forward and back by a little bit would generally be ok. If I paused and then resumed, it jumped to a completely different part of the episode.

I just did a quick test. The episode was fully listened to. I went back four minutes (looked like 23 minutes in, but probably actually ~50?) and played for 10 seconds and then paused. When I resumed, it jumped back 15 seconds, but the audio was from a completely different part of the episode (I assume from the actual 23 minute mark).

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Hmm. I wonder now if the download was corrupted somehow. I just went into the BB podcast software and the episode it sees from Podtrapper is listed with the wrong timestamp, but the one it downloaded itself has the correct timestamp.

The weird thing is this happened for three episodes that were downloaded at the same time. Now I wonder if it was some glitch on CBC's server. Unless there was a glitch in the downloads on the phone and I happened to reboot the phone at some point before the download via the BB podcast software.
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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby marwatk on Mon May 23, 2011 3:57 pm

If you redownload one of those episodes now, does it still do it?

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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby torpesco on Tue May 24, 2011 8:09 am

Not sure if I can now - since it seemed to be a download issue, I deleted the episodes from PodTrapper and the BB software. Is there a way to re-download after deleting an episode?
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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby marwatk on Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:21 pm

Yeah, you can 'Change View', then 'View Deleted'.

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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby torpesco on Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:52 pm

Heh. Seems obvious now.

I did that and the three episodes all show approx 27.5 minutes for the length. Likely half of the actual length. So for these ones, download with PodTrapper and it's off, download with the BB one and the length is ok.

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/idea ... _34910.mp3
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/idea ... _27760.mp3
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/idea ... _53583.mp3

If there's some card from the SD card I could send you that would help, let me know.

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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby marwatk on Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:01 pm

What does the length show if you choose 'Play in Native Player'?

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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby torpesco on Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:12 pm

marwatk wrote:What does the length show if you choose 'Play in Native Player'?


The correct length, for all three. (Wasn't expecting that, actually...)
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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby marwatk on Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:59 pm

Well, that's disconcerting. Can you shoot me a copy of your logs after trying to play one of those episodes? (Via Help/Support -> Email Developer)

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Re: MP3 length incorrect, causing pause/resume problems

New postby torpesco on Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:52 am

And now, while the length starts at 27 min, it is corrected after a few seconds of play. Strange that it wasn't the first time I listened to these episodes.

Given that I've never seen the issue on any other podcast episodes, it doesn't seem worth investigating further. I emailed a log just in case you are still curious.

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