Audio Files Length Increasing in X3

Tasselfoot · Post by **Tasselfoot** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:13 pm

I use audacity to record audio from my microphone. Everything was working fine, until I changed some settings for my sound card. Nothing was changed for audacity or X3.

However, the legnth of my file in audacity (and in iTunes) is 33:08... but in X3 it imported as 33:34. I was so confused the first time that I re-did everything... and I have the exact same issue the 2nd time around. Since the length is fine in audacity and iTunes, it has to be an issue with X3 importing it.

The file is an mp3, 128kbps, 44100 Hz, stereo.

Thanks!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:49 pm

Does it do the same thing if you record it in Audacity in standard .wav format?

Tasselfoot · Post by **Tasselfoot** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:54 pm

Unfortunately, I don't know... I deleted the raw recording after converting it to mp3 (never had an issue before where I needed to keep it). I'd have to record something new to test it.

Tasselfoot · Post by **Tasselfoot** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:04 pm

I just tested something out... I created a 10 minute sine tone in audacity, then exported that out to wav and mp3. Then imported them both to X3.

wav came out to 10:00.00
mp3 came out to 10:00.18

So it appears that exporting to wav should fix my problem going forward. However, it doesn't answer the question as to why my mp3s just started going haywire... none of my X3 settings changed, and I did this exact same procedure a week ago with no issues. Only thing that changed were a few minor tweaks to my sound card settings.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:08 pm

In a sense, you were lucky your mp3 recordings worked for so long...

Unfortunately, mp3 has always been a weak spot with successive versions of VS. It seems to work most of the time for most people, but not for others. Most people seem to have problem when the mp3 is recorded using the LameMP3 codec -- which is the one used by Audacity. But I too am unable to explain why it suddenly started doing this. I don't suppose you updated Audacity recently, and thus possibly a newer version of the Lame codec...?

Our basic message has long been: if you have trouble of any kind with an mp3 in VS, then convert it to .wav instead...

Tasselfoot · Post by **Tasselfoot** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:13 pm

I did recently upgrade my audacity. However, I used it last week without incident.

Oh well.

Thank you for the quick assistance.

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