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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Possible recorded file bug?Possible recorded file bug?
From: Jos Laake <joslaake_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:11:09 -0700 First some background to this recording problem: (Or "Why this issue is so important to me" ;-) ) Hi I'm Jos from Santa Cruz, California, USA. I have an Archos FM Recorder running RockBox 2.0. For the most part, I love it! But... I'm a musician, and I use my unit primarily to *record* my new music. Also, I work with a number of other musicians not geographically located near me. We record song ideas and track-pairs and send them back and forth through the 'net as .mp3 files, and I've been needing a good quality hand-held stereo digital recorder, so I bought the Archos FM Recorder, discovered this most-excellent RockBox software, and here I am. Here's my problem: So, I plug the analog record-out of my mixer to the line-in of the RockBox, set record, push "go", play my piece and then stop and save the file. I get an mp3 file named something like 'R030418-015350.mp3'. No problem. I select it and press 'play' and there it is, what I just recorded, beautiful! (Or not, depending on how well *I* play. ;-) ) So I'm happy with the recording and I want to send it to my band members who are all scattered in Wisconsin, Iowa, California and Israel. Theoretically no problem, I thought. I just plug the unit into USB, it shows up as disk 'J:'. I navigate over and click on the file 'R030418-015350.mp3' that I just recorded. My Windose dutifully calls up 'Media Player 9' and I get this cryptic error message: 'Unable to initialize a file.' When I ask for 'More Information' it says: '0xC00D001F: Cannot find the file' 'Error ID = 0xC00D001F, Condition ID = 0x00000000' Oddly enough, I checked it on another mp3 player I had on another system and it played there. Also, it *does* play on the unit running RockBox 2.0, and it sounds great, so I'm assuming the encoded music part of the file is okay. Then I looked at the file using 'MP3Ext'. It gave me this info: Bitrate: 0K Time: 00:00 Mode: s Layer: - Freq: 0 Frames: 0 ----- No ID3Tag available ----- Hmmm, that doesn't look right. So I did some more test recordings. *None* of the recordings I've made so far will play on 'Media Player 9'. Here's more info: My recording settings are: Quality: 7 Frequency: 48KHz Source: 'Line in' or 'mic' Channels: stereo It's possible this is an issue with 'Media Player 9' but, like it or not, it's what a lot of people use, including all my musician friends. Although I may be a dyed-in-the-wool Tux-lovin' Linux user and hacker, I have no illusions about getting my definitely non- geeky musical siblings to switch from what is working for them, and they're the ones I gotta send this music to, and they're all using 'Media Player 9'. So, any thoughts on this one? Sounds kinda like a bug to me. Should I file a bug report? I'm gonna go do more tests, fiddle with the settings... ~Jos~ Received on 2003-04-18 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |