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On my list of things to do in my copious free time is a VBR fixer that you run on the player at a shell prompt, that would fix up all the duration/bitrate tags in the *1 files as well.

I was about to ask for one of those (at least the latter half), so if you get some CFT....

OTOH, if I get some first, I might have a go.
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