I had this problem on both Rivendell and another system. The mp3 file would 'just break'.
Resampling as part of the download script solved the problem. We could not identify a cause; looked closely at the files; maybe it is a vbr thing. regards Robert On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 12:42 +0000, Wayne Merricks wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if anyone else has noticed oddities when using rdimport > on variable or average bit rate mp3s? > > Its completely hit and miss but when we find a song that does this, you > can even re-encode and it will consistently cut off at exactly the same > time. > > For example, lets say Broken Song A is 5minutes 30 seconds. Riv will > import and claim it is completed successfully but you might only have > got 4minutes of the song. > > Broken Song B might be 4minutes long and only import 1minute of it. > > The easy fix for this if you want to stick with mp3s is re-encode as a > constant bit rate mp3 or to prevent further quality loss export to wav. > > Its not a big issue here but might be something to be aware of if you're > not vetting content before it goes to air like you should be. > > Regards, > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
