How to play new flavor of mp3 files

[Conrad Sabatier]

On 12-Apr-2003 Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
>> I've recently started seeing mp3 files that neither mpg123 nor
>> plaympeg can deal with. I find this rather annoying, and would like to
>> know if there's something I can use to play them. All my examples are
>> rather large, so I won't attach one here. But file identifies them as:
>> "MP3,  32 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Stereo". Playing them with mpg123 results
>> in errors about not being able to rewind the stream; playing them with
>> plaympeg results in a random collection of clicks.
> 
> Yeah, this is the hallmark of VBR coded MP3s. mpg123 won't play them but
> xmms, and even the old xaudio tools, can play them.

Jumping into this thread a bit late, but...

mpg123 *can* play VBR MP3s; I do it all the time.

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