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Um, so if there's a way to "fix" VBR or "improper" MP3 files before
importing them with rdimport, how come rdimport can't do that work for
us? Has anyone looked at the transcoding method inside
utils/rdimport/rdimport.cpp? Is it worth taking the time to improve
rdimport?

  ~David


On 02/26/2016 09:18 AM, Lorne Tyndale wrote:
> I've run into stuff like that too, usually it is an issue with the MP3
> not necessarily meeting the standard format for mp3's, but being "close
> enough" to play on most players.  It can also be the vbr stuff as
> suggested.
>
> You could try running the mp3's through mp3val before importing and see
> if it finds issues.  To test, just try running mp3val on some copies of
> the original files and see if it finds problems. 
>
> Otherwise - as suggested - it might be easiest to uncompress the files
> before importing.
>
>
>
>>
>> I built a Rivendell machine for WZBR AM 1410 a couple years ago when
that
>> station moved from Brockton to Boston, MA; it's been running flawlessly.
>> Last month, however, my client decided to lease the station 24/7 to a
>> third party, and had me move the machine to the transmitter site
where its
>> function would be to run a top-of-hour ID on top of programming that
would
>> be coming from the broker's new studio via Internet stream.
>>
>> The broker's new studio isn't ready, so he's been feeding the station
from
>> somewhere in California. The stream has been dropping out a lot, so I
>> suggested he give me his audio files and I'd load them into the
Rivendell
>> machine and play them from the transmitter site until his studio is
ready.
>>
>> His audio files are all MP3's, alas, but I rdimported them all last
night
>> and put them on the air about three hours ago.
>>
>> At the end of each cut, I hear an electronic buzz for five to ten
seconds
>> just before the transition to the next cut. I don't know what's going
on,
>> but I'm guessing it has something to do with the transitions. I've tried
>> fiddling with the crossfade times and using "play" instead of "segue"
>> transitions, but nothing seems to answer.
>>
>> Just now, I heard a clean transition, but it happened about four minutes
>> into a supposedly 17 minute cut. Looking at Edit Markers, the cut is in
>> fact only four minutes long; somehow Rivendell got bad information from
>> rdimport.
>>
>> I believe a good many of these cuts are shorter than Rivendell thinks
they
>> are. Is there a way to fix this other than manually through Edit Markers?
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> --
>> Я там, где ребята толковые,
>> Я там, где плакаты "Вперёд",
>> Где песни рабочие новые
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