[Bug 63851] Re: KDE and Amarok - Song length displayed incorrectly

[Jeff Mitchell]

Tobias: I have archives of the Amarok mailing list going back two years
and I have no record of an email from you to the list, which is probably
why you never got a reply.

Anyways, as has already been discussed here, this is a TagLib bug, not
an Amarok bug.  There are reasons that it wasn't fixed before, one of
which is that it takes an order of magnitude (or several) longer to
calculate the correct length of a VBR file without a Xing header than
with one -- and you'll incur this penalty every time the file is scanned
or read.  So really, the best answer by far is to pop a Xing header onto
your file (in your case, once it's finished being ripped from a stream).

That being said, Scott Wheeler is currently in bugfixing mode (perhaps
for an upcoming release?) and before he releases (or just when he gets
the time) he likes to go and close all open bugs.  The time it takes him
to do that usually relates to the complexity of the patch and how long
it takes him to verify correct functionality.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130185 is still open so I guess he
hasn't gotten to that yet.

So the best answer that anyone can give you right now is: We don't know
when TagLib 1.5 will be released, but chances are this problem will be
fixed, either through your patch or something similar, before then.

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KDE and Amarok - Song length displayed incorrectly
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