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Dylan Rickenbacker
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Join date: 11 Oct 2006
Posts: 365
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12-11-2007 05:22
Hi, I'm streaming mp3s from my web space to my land, using a URL changer script. Now I have some files that just won't play ... funnily enough all from the same band (but other files from that band play alright). I can play them in my browser, but not in SL through the land media settings. Any ideas what might cause this?
(I had a similiar problem a while ago where the bit rate seems to have been too high ... at least it worked after I re-uploaded the songs with 128 kBit/s. This time I even tried 96 kBit/s - no success.)
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Dytska Vieria
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Join date: 13 Dec 2006
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12-11-2007 06:20
I have found the same problem with any mp3 created with an old version of RealJukebox v2. After recreating the songs with WinAmp, they would play just fine.
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Thormec Micheline
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Join date: 16 Oct 2006
Posts: 46
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12-11-2007 07:07
Can't help with your problem but would be grateful for help with mine. I'm several steps behind you. Can you give me info about this "URL changer script"? Does this bypass the need to go through a server to feed MP3s into SL?
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Dylan Rickenbacker
Animator
Join date: 11 Oct 2006
Posts: 365
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12-11-2007 08:54
@Dytska: Thanks... there's a chance this will help as I didn't encode those "problem" files myself. I'll try exporting them to audio and encode them again, see whether that does the trick.
@Thormec: Yes, that's exactly what it does. You put your playlist in a notecard, along with the playing times, and the script changes the URL in your land settings for each song. I'm using the Rave Media Display for this, which is technically off the market right now, but you can still get it by contacting the creator, Foolish Frost. There may be other products out there that do the same thing.
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Dylan Rickenbacker
Animator
Join date: 11 Oct 2006
Posts: 365
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12-12-2007 02:15
Heads-up: It's working now after I re-encoded the files. Any theories as to why this was happening very welcome.
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Anti Antonelli
Deranged Toymaker
Join date: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 1,091
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12-12-2007 02:58
I understand embedded album art chokes the internal player (chokes my ancient car deck too, but that's a different story), re-encoding them would surely fix that. Might want to check and see if the originals had album art embedded in them.
If you want to use the originals (not a bad idea, since re-encoding a lossy format like mp3 incurs cumulative damage and loss of fidelity) or you run into this again down the line, get an advanced ID3v2 tag editor that lets you strip out extended tags. I use MP3 Tag Studio, but there are many other free ones and some of them surely have this functionality.
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Void Singer
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Join date: 24 Sep 2005
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12-12-2007 04:47
very likely what Anti said, other possibilities might be things like Variable Bit Rate encoding (some encoders default to this) of differing mp3 formats (like MP3Pro) which the SL client may not be coded to handle properly.
ah what I wouldnt give for aacp stream support
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Rock Vacirca
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Join date: 18 Oct 2006
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12-12-2007 05:50
From: Thormec Micheline Can't help with your problem but would be grateful for help with mine. I'm several steps behind you. Can you give me info about this "URL changer script"? Does this bypass the need to go through a server to feed MP3s into SL? You can get one from 'Appliance of the Mind', in Hoini. It is in the MP3 Jukebox there. Rock |
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Thormec Micheline
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Join date: 16 Oct 2006
Posts: 46
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12-12-2007 16:09
Thanks Dylan and Rock for your help.
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