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RolandiXor
Asked: 2013-01-29 15:52:41 +0800 CST

How can I fix incorrect mp3 duration?

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I have a number of songs in my Music library that display incorrect duration values, and so play only partially in Clementine. In Banshee and some other players they show different duration values and sometimes play the full song.

Is there a way to fix this without having to "re-encode" the song?

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    MP3 Diags can fix incorrect durations (and other errors). It is open source and in the repositories. It is a GUI Tool.

    Installation

    sudo apt-get install mp3diags mp3diags-doc

    Another option is MP3val, which can be used either via commandline or via GUI:

    Installation

    sudo apt-get install mp3val

    Usage example

    mp3val damaged.mp3 -f -t

    -f: fix errors, -t: keep original timestamp

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  2. If you don't want to install anything new, try with ffmpeg:

    ffmpeg -i file_orig.mp3 -acodec copy file_fixed.mp3
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  3. Aside from the VBR headers not matching the actual audio (which you would use mp3val to correct, as mentioned in the other answer), another reason this can be caused is by an MP3 file having ID3 tag that has an incorrect value for the TLEN tag. You can fix this using the mid3v2 tool from the mutagen package to remove the tag (apparently its optional):

    $ mid3v2 --delete-frames=TLEN filename.mp3

    The music player Quodlibet also has a convenient "Fix MP3 Duration" plugin you can use to do this.

    (Taken from the Quodlibet FAQ: http://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/faq.html)

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  4. mp3check worked perfect for me also with wildcards.

    sudo apt-get install mp3check

mp3check {filename or wildcard} --cut-junk-start --cut-junk-end --fix-headers
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