Forums Bug Reports $insong.length/$inmp3.length bug

$insong.length doesn't return the correct length of an mp3 in miliseconds.

Just play an mp3 with /splay -p and then type:

//echo -a $insong.length $sound($insong.fname).length

You get different values, when both of them should be the same. The second value is the correct one.

I tried this with several different MP3s and they all returned the same length for both $insong.length and $sound().length

1ms different for me.

the 1ms diverence is the parse time mIRC takes for it I guess :-]

The difference is because $sound() calculates the duration by reading from the mp3 file itself, while $insong.length gets the duration from Windows' MCI system (which is responsible for playing the sounds). So there's probably nothing mirc can do to resolve this issue.

Yeah, you're right. That was my initial thought too, but since this behavior "started" after I installed mIRC 6.1, I thought that it was an mIRC bug; but now I know that it was just a coincidence.

Only a set of songs I recently ripped from a sampler CD I got do this and, after downgrading to 6.1, I tested the identifiers and they return the same values they do in 6.11/6.12. And now I know for sure that it's not mIRC's fault.