Alley's player playing podcasts very fast

[MeneGene]

Recently, many podcasts that I listen to on the Alley through the Alley player are playing the casts fast.

Sounds like the chipmunks

But it's not all podcasts just a bunch of them. When I go the Podcasters site they play fine.

Is it something with the Podcast Alley Player?

I'm using Safari on OSX.

Thanks

[yaz]

ha! i love it when they sound like chipmunks...my computer's dvd player still plays the audio when i fast foward a movie 2x, i watch movies in half the time and no matter what it is, i laugh my *** off...

[theFerf]

yeah, there is a problem with the player. I tested a lot of podcasts with it before i added it to the site, and most of the audio worked. What we are running into now though is podcasters are learning how to tweak recordings. When the bitrate is changed (i think) in the recording, it can speed or or slow down the way the player plays the audio back.

I will be in touch with the creator of the player, but dont understand. i thought the flash player just passed the mp3 through. Intriguing.

[theFerf]

UPDATE: here is what i found from the developers website:
The issue with the "chimpmonk" effect is due to the way that the mp3 was originally encoded. Macromedia Flash can handle most standard mp3 encodings with any bitrate. However, some mp3 encoders use "non-standard" encoding technics that Macromdia Flash can not handle.

- An MP3 encoded at 128kbps should work.
- A sample rate of 44.1kHz should work.
- Flash goes all chipmunk on a LAME encode at 40kbps mono, but works at 32
- For low bitrates (less than 32), flash seems to only play nice with 11.025 or 22.05.
I hope this makes sense to somebody else, because I cant say that it makes much to me :) Im not telling anyone to re-encode anything, but this is just a heads up. i will continue my search for the perfect audio and video players.

[jeffoest]

I would offer that in today's world of cheap players that can handle any bit rates, CBR or VBR, any sample rates, it's just unacceptable for Flash to only play a subset of all of them correctly.

Thanks for sharing that!

[allthewhile]

it's a problem with the flash technology and not the player itself. Unless they could figure out a way to read the file and slow it down automatically when it's been encoded a certain way, I don't think there's a fix.

[yaz]

i just watched the lord of the rings trilogy in like an hour and a half...**** those hobbits walk fast...

[el]

frodo for pope!