How Do I Indentify a Bad Track?

I seem to have a bad track in the playlist but have no idea which one and can't find a way to identify it mentioned anywhere. How can I tell which is the offending track?

When I skiped over it in the shell prompt using ./player -i, I get 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.

Thanks,
Stu

There's no easy way that I know of.

I tend to assume that it's "that MP3 you downloaded from that guy at that LAN party" in most cases. It's never anything I ripped myself.

If it's a short playlist, you can just play it in sequence (non shuffle mode). Which song was the last song that played correctly? The bad one is the next one in the list.

That's kind of what I figured. Thanks anyway!

Stu

Hijack_Menu -> Vital_Signs. It shows the FID info for the current playlist, and the track number within that playlist.

Not perfect, but at least a really good hint.

cheers

Cool, but suppose you can't get to Hijack which was the case. The player would just constantly attempt to load the playlist (I think) but would not allow me to access Hijack. I had to bash into the control-i thing to get the player to work and by that point the info is lost I believe.

Stu

If hijack is installed, you can get to it. The player cannot prevent that.

Cheers

I just realized that advice I gave a little while back might be wrong.

It's gonna crash when it's *caching* a given song, right? Not when it's playing a given song? And that could be several songs ahead?

Well, it depends exactly what's causing the crash. If it's a filesystem problem, meaning the kernel crashes on reading the file, then it'll happen at caching time, yes. But I think it's more common that a file loads correctly, but then trips up the decoder; that won't happen until it's playing, or moments away from being played. ("Moments" being about a tenth of a second plus the cross-fade setting.)

Peter

Ah cool. Thanks!