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Topic: MP3 QUESTION

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I bought 3 mp3 singles from Beatport as I normally do. And 2 of the songs work , the 3rd song works with Windows Media Player and Itunes no problem. But, when I load it onto VDJ it only loads 8 seconds of it?? Whats that about , I tried to take it all back out and redownload it twice. It still does it , does anyone have any idea why it's doing this? Can someone help me, please?
 
Posted Mon 02 Jun 08 @ 9:31 am
Is it a VBR encoded file? Please provide some information about the file.
 
Wow you lost me there, I have no idea what VBR is. I think it's just an mp3 file, atleast that is what it says. It's 7min 33sec long, but only 8 secs loads onto VDJ.

It's the only file that has ever done that to me , it's weird!
 
VBR - Variable Bit Rate, compression that changes bits used depending on sound info in various position in the song. For best results, CBR - Constant Bit Rate is recommended.
Here is how you can found out is it VBR, just play it in Winamp and if it changes bitrate during play, that is VBR. If it is constant, that is CBR.
You can try to decompress to wav using Audio Catalyst and similar program and than compress it back to CBR Mp3 at 320Kbit/s.
 
Under the properties tab it reads as an mp3 file with 320 kbs. Is that right? Could it be the song is just corrupt or something?
 
Reencoding (as Alf suggested) the file will definately solve the problem. Post a link with
a file if you want people here to find what the issue is (even though you bought it and
there are copyrights, it's for troubleshooting only).
 
I would post a link if I knew how ,sorry man im not good w/all this techy stuff. I will try and reencode it after I figure out exactly how to do that , thanks!
 
You can upload it on service like Rapidshare and contact cstoll or me on PM.
 
Download this tool - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/index.htm

Direct download link - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/GSpot270a.zip

Extract the files to a spot on your hard drive.
Run the Gspot.exe
Use the Open File and select the file in question.
Below the file path info, is a the Audio information.

There you will see VBR (Variable Bit Rate) or CBR (Constant Bit Rate).


As mentioned VBR is not liked very well in VirtualDJ (and other audio applications)

cstoll
 
Hey Cstoll thanks for your help! I did exactly what you said with that program ,and it turns out that file is actually a cbr file. So , I don't know what's wrong with that thing.
 


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