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A have a few MP3s that are having their length time reporting wrong (in both Windows Media Player and Winamp). The song will be 5 minutes or so long, but will be reported anywhere between 9 and 16 minutes long, depending on the player I use.
However, it plays the length of the song and when it gets to the end, it says "5:04" (doesn't go all the way to 9 or 16).
Any ideas on how to fix this in the file?
Sometimes if the file isn't completly 'intact' it can cause that issue. Try obtaining a new version of the file and see if it fixes the issue.
This happens with some VBR encoded files. It is hard to determine the actual length of the file, because the length of the blocks vary. Also, a lot depends on the encoder too. LAME should produce nice VBR files, while some others might lack some feature that makes it easier to determine the length of VBR files.