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xidar

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Registered: 2012-06-28

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[solved] Various MP3s are marked as [invalid encoding] with Quod Libet

Various MP3s are marked as [invalid encoding] when I attempt to open them in Quod Libet. These same MP3s open fine in VLC. I checked and I have everything related to gstreamer installed: good, bad, ugly, ffmpeg. My thinking is that should do it but it doesn't. The error listed is "Resource not found." But of course Quod Libet does have the correct path to the file. Also, in case this could be related, the files all appear to show raw unicode in the comments tag rather than the comments. LIke so: 000010A3 000010E3 000057E6 000062C2 0004F705 0005B198 00008000 00008000 00005A9C 00005A3F.  Rather than... well I'm not sure what that's supposed to be.

I checked the wiki on gstreamer but and glanced at Pulse's but Pulse, ALSA, and OSS don't seem to be relevant.

Last edited by xidar (2012-06-28 21:36:29)

Inxsible

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Re: [solved] Various MP3s are marked as [invalid encoding] with Quod Libet

I am just guessing... but try it out in a couple other music players. Unfortunately (in this case), vlc can play just about anything. This will tell you for sure if its the mp3 files that are a problem or quod-libet.

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xidar

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Registered: 2012-06-28

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Re: [solved] Various MP3s are marked as [invalid encoding] with Quod Libet

I learned Banshee won't stay open and that this particular song works in Rhythmbox just fine. I can look for some other songs that don't play but I'm sure the result will be the same. (Of course having said that I'll check just in case.) Any ideas? Or should I just file a bug report and move on? Ex Falso is still great.

anonymous_user

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Re: [solved] Various MP3s are marked as [invalid encoding] with Quod Libet

Is it the tags causing the problem? What if you reapply/update the tags?

xidar

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Registered: 2012-06-28

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Re: [solved] Various MP3s are marked as [invalid encoding] with Quod Libet

Yep I went back and looked and it's everything, except one song, that has an "é" and also the bôa album. I'll file a bug report about and call it solved.

Also, I cleared all the extra tags and the junk text (which was probably a custom tag at  one point) that was in comments and it works. So maybe iTunes screwed up the formatting and Ex Falso took and mangled all of my comments because of it and something to do with unicode.

Last edited by xidar (2012-06-28 22:01:26)