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necrophyte · 07-23-2008, 08:41 PM

its quite weird, but when i click on any of my mp3s once or hover over them in win explorer, the duration shown is completely wrong. depending on the real duration, its approx. the duration in minutes, but shown in seconds :-O eg. short tracks are shown as 3-4sec long, longer 7-8sec, and long >hour mixes ~1min19sec. when playing them in wmp, everythings ok, the duration is displayed correctly.

any ideas what could be causing that and how to fix it?

hp8510p
winxp pro sp3

thanks

07-23-2008, 08:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
necrophyte Junior Techie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 51	windows shows wrong durations of mp3s in explorer its quite weird, but when i click on any of my mp3s once or hover over them in win explorer, the duration shown is completely wrong. depending on the real duration, its approx. the duration in minutes, but shown in seconds :-O eg. short tracks are shown as 3-4sec long, longer 7-8sec, and long >hour mixes ~1min19sec. when playing them in wmp, everythings ok, the duration is displayed correctly. any ideas what could be causing that and how to fix it? hp8510p winxp pro sp3 thanks