[FRODO] mp3s display wrong duration in xbmc (Length tag correct!)

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[FRODO] mp3s display wrong duration in xbmc (Length tag correct!) - Parakoopa - 2013-04-01

Hello there! Big Grin

I recently upgraded to frodo and reinstalled xbmcbuntu. But now half of my music displays the wrong length in XBMC (arround 10x the actual duration). Theese files are self-converted from m4a to mp3 VBR with avconv. The files worked on Eden.

Here two files as a comparison:

FILE 1 - WORKING VBR MP3 BOUGHT ON AMAZON (shows correct duration)

mp3info output:

Code:
Media Type:  MPEG 1.0 Layer III

Audio:       Variable kbps, 44 kHz (joint stereo)

Emphasis:    none

CRC:         No

Copyright:   No

Original:    Yes

Padding:     No

Length:      3:39

mpck output:

Code:
version                       MPEG v1.0

    layer                         3

    average bitrate               257020 bps (VBR)

    samplerate                    44100 Hz

    frames                        8391

    time                          3:39.193

    unidentified                  0 b (0%)

    errors                        none

    result                        Ok

FILE TWO - SELF-CONVERTED (avconv -i "$i" -ab 256k -y "${i%m4a}mp3" {m4a files to mp3}):

mp3info:

Code:
Media Type:  MPEG 1.0 Layer III

Audio:       256 kbps, 44 kHz (joint stereo)

Emphasis:    none

CRC:         No

Copyright:   No

Original:    Yes

Padding:     Yes

Length:      4:51

mpck:

Code:
version                       MPEG v1.0

    layer                         3

    average bitrate               255948 bps (VBR)

    samplerate                    44100 Hz

    frames                        11159

    time                          4:51.500

    unidentified                  0 b (0%)

    errors                        none

    result                        Ok

The only thing I can think of beeing the problem could be the following lines in mp3info:
FILE1:
Audio: Variable kbps, 44 kHz (joint stereo)
FILE2:
Audio: 256 kbps, 44 kHz (joint stereo)

XBMC could assume that the file is a 256kbps CBR file for the calculation of the duration. But I would not know how to easily solve this problem.

EDIT: It works fine in all other players. I post this to the general support forum because I don't think this is a problem with xbmcbuntu