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I have an Mp3 file that isn opened correctly by Amadeus Pro. Whats the problem?

April 26, 2017amadeus correctly file mp3 opened Pro problem

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I have an Mp3 file that isn opened correctly by Amadeus Pro. Whats the problem?

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The file is probably a corrupted Mp3 file (maybe produced by simply concatenating Mp3 streams without taking care of frame boundaries, or by some software that simply doesn’t care about standards), so that different decoders produce different results. As a general rule, it seems that the Mp3 decoder built into QuickTime is a bit more error-tolerant than mpg123, which is the decoder that Amadeus Pro uses. You can force Amadeus Pro to read Mp3 files with QuickTime instead of mpg123 by typing defaults write com.HairerSoft.AmadeusPro HSReadMp3WithQuickTime 1 in the terminal. You can revert to using mpg123 by typing the same thing with 1 replaced by 0. The main advantage of using mpg123 is that it also decodes mp2 streams which QuickTime can’t read.