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Some .oggs play while others don't

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XavierGr:
Strange! At least it should be able to read its tags and if not at least show the filename...

Lear:
You can get that error if the last file in a playlist/isn't playable (e.g., because the file doesn't exist, or metadata reading failed).

A chained ogg is when several oggs have been joined into one file. If you open such a file in Foobar2000, it will show up as several playlist entries.

antimatter:
I found out that the oggs that wont play were ripped with Grip. Apparently my friend has had some programs that wont play those oggs either. It must have something to do with the way Grip encodes the oggs.

bk:
Grip has an option to put ID3 tags on all files, regardless of codec. I suggest checking to see if that option is on and turn it off if it is. I've produced unplayable FLAC files before by making that mistake.

antimatter:
I think i know what the problem is. The start of the ogg file is different when Grip encodes it (see pic unedited.jpg). The file that plays looks like the one in the picture normalogg.jpg (see below).

To test this theory I changed the Grip encoded ogg so that it looked more like the normal ogg file (see pic modified.jpg. Changes are in yellow except for deleting the first two lines and all of the empty space in the original (pic unedited.jpg).

I then tested the file on my ipod (just a note i am running senabs build http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=7942.0 although even with the normal rockbox software I had this problem.) While the file did not play properly (I messed up something when editing it with notepad) it did find the filename and attempt to play it (see pic Ipod). When it was done playing the file it returned me back to the root directory where I came from.

Anyways, thats thats my best guess as to what is keeping the file from playing. I do not have the programming experience to be able to fix the problem. However I am willing to work on the problem I just have no idea where to start.

Unedited.jpg http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/8554/uneditedcl9.jpg
normalogg.jpg
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6177/normaloggop6.jpg
modified.jpg
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/3301/modifiedas8.jpg
ipod.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5959/ipodgv1.jpg

they were too big to attach  ::)

edit: I also found this
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1309780&group_id=3714&atid=103714

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