Music Library Not Playing All My MP3s

[fional]

At first I thought this was an issue with ML2, because that's what I was using. But then I figured I'd try it with the default Music Library and the same problem occurs.

Some of my MP3s won't play sound. It acts like it is playing them, but it doesn't actually play them. They all play correctly in WMP and MediaMonkey. To my knowledge they are tagged correctly, as I used MediaMonkey to tag them all.

Enclosed are my logs. What I did was I started PVR and then went to Music Library and went to play an mp3 that I knew wouldn't produce sound. Then I exited.

[sub]

Every 6 months or so we get a user reporting this. Basically those specific files are encoded in a way that the directshow filters used on your machine for MP3 playback cant play them. You'll find you have the same problem in all other apps that rely on Directshow to do the playback (can test in GraphEdit with 'render media file', or in gspot). WMP does not use Directshow for MP3 playback, and doesnt have the same problem.

Your options include looking for an alternate set of MP3 directshow filters for installing on your machine, or rip that music as more standard MP3 files.

[fional]

Ah thank you much Sub. I ripped these in iTunes. I'll have a go at finding an alternate set of directshow filters if possible, as this is a lot of files to re-rip.

[fional]

I ran the test with gspot, sure enough the mp3 failed. But I'm unclear as to how to use gspot to figure out what I need. It says "codec installed".

[weisguy]

Try the directshow filters here - they cleared up the same issue for me:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DS_M...Filter.htm

[dennit]

I ran the test with gspot, sure enough the mp3 failed. But I'm unclear as to how to use gspot to figure out what I need. It says "codec installed".

I was one of the users that sub referred to, except I think it was a lot less than 6 months ago. I solved my problem by using GraphEdit. In theory, GraphEdit should play the file the same way that GBPVR plays it, so if it fails in one, it should fail in the other. However, I was using ffdshow filters, and sub kindly explained to me that ffdshow keeps a whitelist of programs it provides services to (separate lists for audio and video). GraphEdit was on those lists, but GBPVR was not. That meant that GraphEdit played my problem mp3s while GBPVR did not. I added GBPVR to the ffdshow whitelists, and that provided one solution to the problem. I also played with filter merit and was able to get other filters to play the problem mp3s.

[fional]

Try the directshow filters here - they cleared up the same issue for me:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DS_M...Filter.htm

That worked! Thank you!!!

[MixMan]

I retagged and renamed some MP3 files, unsing the fantastic MusicBrainz Picards program.
After that Music Library wouldn't play the files, but the play fine in WMP and WinAmp.
Then I tried the DS MP3 Source Filter and the files played fine in Music Library. Then I removed the DS MP3 Source filter and used The Godfather to remove the ID3v2 tags.
After removing the ID3v2 tags the files played fin in Music Library.
I retaged´the filed with new ID3v2 tags....and the continued to play fine i Music Library.
Conclusion "bad" ID3v2 tags can cause MP3 files not to play in Music Library.

[sub]

In the old days WMP used to just use directshow to play .mp3 files, but these days it uses own internal method of playing these so its no longer a good comparison of whether Directshow will be able to play .mp3 files. WinAmp is the same, and uses its own internal MP3 libraries.

You would have found that you had the same problem with these files in other Directshow based players (GraphEdit etc).

Can you email me one of those problem files though?