How to play new flavor of mp3 files

[Doug White]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:

> I've recently started seeing mp3 files that neither mpg123 nor
> plaympeg can deal with. I find this rather annoying, and would like to
> know if there's something I can use to play them. All my examples are
> rather large, so I won't attach one here. But file identifies them as:
> "MP3,  32 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Stereo". Playing them with mpg123 results
> in errors about not being able to rewind the stream; playing them with
> plaympeg results in a random collection of clicks.

Yeah, this is the hallmark of VBR coded MP3s. mpg123 won't play them but
xmms, and even the old xaudio tools, can play them.

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