Please provide screenshots and a sample of the mp3 - attached to your reply.

1. Please place the MP3 into PD9's Library
2. Drag the mp3 to Track1 audio.
3. Highlight the mp3 in the library and move to the preview player, move the slider to the right. Take a screenshot showing the counter.
4. Highlight the mp3 in the track, move the preview slider to the right, take a screenshot and make sure we see the tracks in the image and the preview counter.
5. In Explorer/Folder, highlight the mp3 and take a screenshot of what windows reads the data as (W7).

I cant replicate this issue.

Using a free software called MediaInfo, please extract the mp3 data and provide it to us as a text file.

Select Post Reply or this link: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/reply/0/17844.page to attach a file(s) You are restricted to 3 attachments per post - make two posts with more than three images.

No -

I can't replicate the MP3 truncation issue either.

Importing a 34:07 MP3 file, the duration remains just that.

So, I get 34 minutes of garbled mess... but that's another problem

Cheers - Tony
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screenshot 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?k26wlbtaskwcvmp
screenshot 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?r579tuwmuf1f74t
screenshot 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?r579tuwmuf1f74t

text media file - http://www.mediafire.com/?r579tuwmuf1f74t

Please edit your links, you've supplied urls to the same screen2.png 3 times.

here is the third and final screen shot http://www.mediafire.com/i/?j3s36j1kvkvdadp

Hi truthseeker889,
Thank you for the images.
The issue does need more information, if you're willing to provide please.

1. Please can you provide the actual mp3 you're having issues with?
2. Please supply your Diagnostic file x2 - Part B, see link below.
3. Your SR number - which can be obtained from a screenshot of the About popup.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7958.page
Part A please.

Your issue is currently being looked into by CyberLink and the additional information is requested by them (for me to supply asap). Item 215.

Okay, here is the mp3 file: http://www.mediafire.com/?nvffcckl4u2en6q

the dxdiag and the screenshot of the about is attached

Using your file, import to PD9 2930, run time 31:43:23.

I note that it is a single channel .mp3. PD has done strange things before with single channel files (from memory - mickey mouse speeds???)

If you convert your file to joint stereo - I used Format Factory - and kept the majority of the other settings as original, PD then imports with a runtime the same as the original.

Don't know why.

Cheers
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Ok thanks Adrian!

Actually mediainfo has the correct original info but PD shows 1:19:05:12 on the timeline........ make of it what you will.

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Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

I pulled your original MP3 file into PD9, and saw the same shortened length you described. Right-clicking on it in the library and looking at properties, it shows a sample rate of 24KHz.

I pulled the file into Audacity, and it showed the sample rate at 8000Hz (8KHz) - 1/3 of what PD9 reported.

I changed the sample rate in Audacity to 44100Hz (44KHz) which is what all of my ripped music MP3's are encoded at, and exported a new MP3, then pulled it into PD9. The time now shows as it is supposed to, and the properties appear the same as what was exported from Audacity.

So it seems the problem is that PD9 is seeing the file as running 3x the speed as the original file is encoded. Re-encoding it to a standard sample rate seems to fix it.

How are the original MP3 files being created?

Edit: I just took a music MP3 and changed the sampling rate to 8000Hz, and it shortened the run time in PD9. Changing it to 22050 did it as well, but not as much. It seems that a sample rate of 44100Hz is the only one that imports into PD9 with the correct runtime (at least with my limited testing). PowerDirector 10 Ultra
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Good investigating SkullyHB!

The conversion Adrian did in FormatFactory actually achieved the same thing. The default setting for MP3 sample rate is 44100Hz.



Different route, same destination!

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Good investigating SkullyHB!

The conversion Adrian did in FormatFactory actually achieved the same thing. The default setting for MP3 sample rate is 44100Hz.

Different route, same destination!

Cheers - Tony

Thank you, Tony.

It does appear to be tied to the sample rate of the audio file.

Looking at it further I noticed something else - I thought that changing the sample rate to 22KHz shortened the track - in fact it didn't. The 44KHz & 22KHz versions have different lenghts, but it appears that the original 44KHz version added 'padding' to the end when I pulled it into PD9. It was originally 2:19, but PD9 shows it as 2:28 because it added 9 seconds of silence at the end. The 22KHz version comes in at 2:19 with no silence.

Very odd. PowerDirector 10 Ultra
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