XBMC mp3 stop a second or two early

[Wanderlei]

I have been listening to audio books and I noticed that the last second or two is cut off. (They are MP3 files streamed via wifi.)

I think it is a XBMC problem, because it happened under Raspbmc and OpenELEC.

I look on XBMC boards too, but find no answer, someone said it may be to do with buffering or HDMI negotiation.

I was wondering if anyone could suggest a setting that I might be overlooking that can fix it, or maybe addon rather than using the XBMC build in music player?

[Wanderlei]

I did some more testing, what is happening when you start the track, it skips through the first 4 seconds of the track timer very quickly then starts to play the track. So when the track timer reaches the end, this 4 seconds must get truncated of the end.

I tried running tracks from SD card and same thing occurs.

A bit annoying losing the last half of a sentence at the end of every chapter.

[Goofy]

I can confirm that it happens randomly for me as well. I am usually playing the same set of mp3 and it does behave differently every time. All files are on SD card and for audio I am using HDMI directly on TV.

Problems are surrounded with the OMX errors, usually timeouts. When xbmc change the track to the next song, sometimes the timer is running even without music actually being played (delays between 2-10s). Sometimes it cuts the song at the end as well, but I haven't noticed that relation... with music it's not annoying too much

[Wanderlei]

... with music it's not annoying too much

haha this is true, music tend have better fade outs at the end of songs build in:)

Problems are surrounded with the OMX errors, usually timeouts. When xbmc change the track to the next song, sometimes the timer is running even without music actually being played (delays between 2-10s). Sometimes it cuts the song at the end as well, but I haven't noticed that relation.

Ah, ok must be the player. I found a similar thread but about video and someone mentions similar behavior with mp3's.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... er#p128541

I checked the author's github page and it was reported as issue and apparently fixed. Does this mean whoever is releasing a xbmc build for R-Pi have to update the source they are using for omxplayer?

https://github.com/huceke/omxplayer/issues/23

[Wanderlei]

It does it with videos too.