Bug#369488: quodlibet: Fails to play some mp3s with new gstreamer 0.10.6

[Loïc Minier]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006, Matthias Rosenkranz wrote:
> I extraced the first 500k, but they are actually played back without
> problems. So I think the problem is the ID3 tag. I resaved the tags in
> BMP -- which played the file -- and now the failing file works in
> quodlibet, too. So I compared the ID3 tag of a failing file from the
> same album with the resaved one:
> $ tail -c 128 failing.mp3
> [output: see attachement faling.id3]
> $ tail -c 128 working.mp3
> [see attachement working.id3]

 Yeah, it's usually a problem with tags.  I'm surprized it doesn't
 appear in the first 500k though.  Could you try producing a minimalist
 file which is still a playable MP3 but exposes the problem?

> The main difference is that the failing ID3 tag is padded with spaces
> (0x20), the working one with zeros (0x00). Also the last character is
> 0x01 for the working file and 0x02 for the failing one. How can I
> provide more info on this as I probably can't send you the whole mp3
> beacause of copyright restrictions?

 Perhaps you can point at the tool which produced the file and tell me
 how to reproduce instead?

   Bye,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>