[MPlayer-users] MP3 playback: bleep at start

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> I'm not totally convinced that it wasn't a buggy encoder that produced
> these samples.  for example:
>
>  robh at homebox:~$ mpg123 -cqn2 arbeit.mp3
>  390 samples clipped
>  81 samples clipped
>  robh at homebox:~$
>
> but you can get around the problem frame simply by skipping it, eg.
>
Way too loud mastering of CDs causes this clipping. It'll show up on any mp3 
made of such a CD.

I went through all mp3s I've present in my music folder:
 (downloaded from world wide sources from 1997 onwards)
Out of total1290 files 20 files start with bleep.
I ran encspot to identify the encoder used on those 20 files, and almost all 
trouble files are encoded using Blade:
Blade: 17 files
QdesignFast: 1 file
Xing(new): 1 file
FHG(fastenc or mp3enc): 1 file

Seems like blade is most likely encoder to generate a frame (ISO 
compliant??) where mplayer chokes on.
BTW: Not all blade encoded files have this problem: amongst the 1290 files 
enough blade encoded files start OK


> the short term solution might just be to use libmad, if you aren't
> already.
Unfortunately, I'm running mplayer in geexbox.
Adding libmad requires full recompile and addition of libmad package to 
geexbox
As an average user, I didn't succeed, and decided to "upgrade" trouble files 
using p2p (or transcode).

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