large playlist bug

[aaron]

i have a 1241 playlist, and if i am playing any song before the 121st or after the 988th, the playlist window returns always to the playing song, which makes it impossible to scroll. this is new in winamp 2.62,in the last version i had (2.5e) this was not so (my playlist was about 1200 at that time).
am i the only one with this kind of problem?


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aaron
aisotton@inwind.i

[chico71183]

I have this same problem, but not at any certain location in my playlist. It seems that if I play variable bit rate MP3's encoded in Music Match Jukebox, Winamp does not properly estimate the length of the song (i.e. I end up with winamp saying the song is recorded at 26kb/s and is 26:58 minutes long) The songs play properly, but you cannot scroll the playlist while they are playing because Winamp assumes you want to see it try and figure out the right song length, which doesn't happen until the very end of the song. This could be rectified by making winamp recognize the correct length of these VBR mp3's. I know Napster correctly estimates these files.

[aaron]

nearly all of my mp3s are vbr, and many of them encoded with musicmatch, but i dont have and i never had that problem with winamp. i have not tried yet wheter the positions in the playlist before and after which winamp denies scrolling vary with the length of the playlist. i'll post as soon as i get some more songs.

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aaron
aisotton@inwind.it

[k2u]

I have noticed the same thing with the playlist. The list gets very long, and then you can't scroll past a certain region. I haven't notice any correalation between bit rate and the problem, but it's a pain in the ass! Is there any way to fix this?

[aaron]

with winamp 2.63 i had the same problem, but now with 2.64 everything's ok. (my playlist is 1381 now)


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aaron
aisotton@inwind.it

[Mr. Ice]

chico: your vbr time estimate problem was fixed all the way back in version 2.09.

aaron and k2u: my playlist is pushing 2,000 songs, and i've never had a problem with winamp. any version, any playlist size.

[k2u]

It's definitely a VBR problem. We use large playlists here -- 300 tracks or more at least -- every day. Whenever a VBR song is playing, the playlist won't scroll. It makes it a pain the ass to add songs while the VBR track is playing, since you can't scroll to the bottom of the list where they're added to drag them anywhere. And hey, while I'm at at it... a nice feature would be to allow cutting and pasting of playlist items!

[aaron]

yes right. it was fixed in 2.64, but im using the winamp 2.22 decoder (fraunhofer).


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aaron
aisotton@inwind.it (no winamp support)
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[DT586]

I have had no problems with the playlist until recently. I use Winamp 2.64 Lite. If I create a new list, and add any more than 895 songs at once, the list will only display around 70 or 80 songs, with the last one being incomplete (it will only display the artist, part of the song title, and no track time). I tried adding half of them at first, and then the other half, which worked fine. All of the files I'm trying to add are in the same directory, and I am simply highlighting them using "Add Files". A friend of mine has had the exact same problem. The magic number seems to be 895. Can anyone relate? It sounds like a bug to me. Thanks.

[Mr. Ice]

this question was answered in another thread, but i'll post it again.

the problem you're experiencing with vbr files is caused in whole by musicmatch's vbr encoding. (or audiocatalyst if you don't use an intermediate wav file.) the problem is that musicmatch doesn't write the correct song length in the file, so winamp trys to guess the correct time, which causes the playlist to jump back whenever it changes its guess. files encoded with audiocatalyst and an intermediate wav file do not have this problem.

[ClintJCL]

You know, I'd never noticed that problem, but I was laughing that you considered 300 songs a large playlist... ;)

I scrolled down to the bottom of mine (11000), and BAM!

Winamp crashes. :winamp:

So it's not just you. Be happy about that.

Guess I'll go back to winamp 2.65 AGAIN... Happens every release. :cry: