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Sometimes Kodi fails to play MP3 files, even though I'm pretty sure I've played these same files in the past. Here is the relevant portion of the log, and I pasted the full debug log below. This is Kodibuntu 15.2.

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DEBUG: FactoryCodec - Audio: FFmpeg - Opened

33:16 T:140005624203200   ERROR: ffmpeg[7F55997F47C0]: [mp3] Header missing

33:16 T:140005624203200   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.

33:16 T:140005624203200    INFO: CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::GetChannelMap - FFmpeg reported 2 channels, but the layout contains 0 ignoring

33:16 T:140005624203200   DEBUG: SeekTime - seek ended up on time 0

33:16 T:140005624203200   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.

33:16 T:140005624203200   ERROR: ffmpeg[7F55997F47C0]: [mp3] Header missing

33:16 T:140005624203200   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.

33:16 T:140005624203200   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Error while decoding 1

33:16 T:140005624203200    INFO: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Error reading samples

33:16 T:140005624203200   DEBUG: OnQueueNextItem: play state was 1, starting 1

33:16 T:140005624203200   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 18, path [musicdb://songs/3355.mp3?albumid=354]

33:16 T:140005624203200   DEBUG: Playlist Player: one or more items failed to play... aborting playback

http://paste.ubuntu.com/14200751/

When I open the file directly in ffmpeg, it shows the following warnings, but it plays just fine:

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[mp3 @ 0x7f8612807a00] Skipping 626 bytes of junk at 127044.f=0/0   

[mjpeg @ 0x7f8613018400] Changeing bps to 8

[mp3 @ 0x7f8612807a00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

Retry with a nightly ... 15.2 ships an old ffmpeg version.

I want to keep my system as stable as possible... Can I just replace the ffmpeg binary with a new one compiled from source instead of doing a nightly? My system has a few ffmpeg binaries in different places; does kodi use the one at /usr/bin/ffmpeg ?

No you can't. kodi is build against internal ffmpeg and kodi 15.2 won't receive anymore updates. You can build yourself against an external ffmpeg.

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