MP3 Weirdness

Posted on November 25, 2005
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The most recent show, the one I published yesterday, has something odd about it. Several people have said they can’t copy it to their iPod and I’ve confirmed this myself. I didn’t deliberately do anything different and I can’t see any particular reason why this should be this way. Can anyone figure this out? Any Apple engineers reading this that feel like taking a crack at it? Why should any standard MP3 resist being copied to an iPod? It’s the man, trying to keep me down!

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    6 Responses to “MP3 Weirdness”

    1. Andrew Herron on November 25th, 2005 9:01 am

      I don’t know how, but you’ve managed to encode it as MP2 instead of MP3 :)

      In the itunes file info, on the right it says “Format: MPEG-1, Layer 2″ (should be Layer 3 like your other episodes). I don’t know of any portable players that support MP2 ;)

    2. Eddie Dickey on November 25th, 2005 4:23 pm

      That was it Andrew.. Folks with iTunes/Ipods can convert the file to ACC format under the Advanced Menu - that will load to the ipod. Dave, I converted the file from Layer-2 to Layer-3 (it loads onto the ipod as well) let me know if you need the file..

    3. Eddie Dickey on November 25th, 2005 5:32 pm

      I meant to say AAC format …

    4. PJ Cabrera on November 25th, 2005 7:31 pm

      It just happens that AAC is the default for iTunes’s import function. But iTunes can convert content to MP3 as well.

    5. Andy on November 25th, 2005 11:31 pm

      It’s not an itunes specific problem. It doesn’t play on my iriver either.
      xmms, however, seems to be able to grok it without a problem.
      Let us know if you recode and repost/update, I’ll kill my bt client and restart with the improved file.

      Damnit - I was going to listen to this while I walked the dog this morning :)

    6. Brooklyn Bluesman on November 26th, 2005 12:27 am

      I think this was a publicity ploy to boost the blog post numbers-TGIF,haha. Glad I found out ahead of time before trying to load in the IRiver.

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