Rockbox

Until it’s fixed I’ve been importing the files to
MP3DirectCut and resaving, which then makes them playable
on win MediaPlayer. Or maybe winamp also has a resaving
feature? john.donahue@excite.com

The 2.0 version has quite a few bugs in the recording and
file system code. I suggest you use the latest daily build
instead.

(JohnD john.donahue@excite.com)
I forgot to mention that I was using the latest build 9/6.
A test file 22k that MediaPlayer couldn’t open was resaved
in MP3DirectCut and was 17k. I was going to attach them but
there doesnt seem to be an option, at least for follow-ups.
Let me know if I should send them on the mailing list.

Please try the latest daily build.

By the way, the problem could be that Media Player has
problems understanding the ID3V2.4 tag in the beginning of
the file.

Unfortunately the “Class not registered” error still occurs with
files made from latest build 11/5. The directcut resaving
method does strip the tag information from the front of the
file allowing it to be playable. Any chance of adding (yet
another) recording option to leave out the tag?

I notice that initial recordings have the tag, but
subsequent ones (pressing play instead of off) leaves it
out and can thus be immediately played on win mediaplayer,
etc. So as a workaround one could make a split second dummy
rec followed by the real thing.
JohnD

Yes, I have seen this too. I was able to change the files
format with MP3DirectCut (http://www.rz.uni-
frankfurt.de/~pesch) which handles MP3 files directly without
expanding them to WAV and without recoding. Afterwards all
files where readable by Windows Media Player. Looking into
the files showed that a huge header was shortened by the
program but I don’t know the exact changes it did.

Use mp3fixer to remove bad frames, VBRfix will rebuild the VBR
header which might help..

Windows Media Player 9 still has problems with MP3 recorded by a Jukebox Recorder V2.
Recording with 1 hour splits,
Media Player was able to play 7 of 45 (including the first 2)
recorded using Rockbox 2.1
and the first 3 in a 20 hour sequence recorded with Rockbox
2.2.
MP3Gain has problems with the same files.
For some files Media Player claims the file format is not MP3,
for others it merely reports unknown error.

JohnD john.donahue@excite.com
Since the earlier ID3 version was subsituted a week ago,
all recordings play directly in Media Player, so can we
consider this one ‘fixed’? Thanks

run teh file through mp3fixer to get rid of bad frames, also try
rebuilding the VBR header with mp3 tag studio or VBRfix

I’m saying it does work correctly now with mplayer, for me
at least, and if as well for other users (V2,Rec,FM), then
we can close this report. johnD

This is fixed in CVS.