[Bug-gnupod] address@hidden: Bug#320400: gnupod-tools: gnupod uploads mp3 files that cannot be played by iPod]

[Brian Nelson]

Hmm, is that true?  I haven't verified it for myself yet...

----- Forwarded message from Avery Pennarun <address@hidden> -----

Subject: Bug#320400: gnupod-tools: gnupod uploads mp3 files that cannot be 
played by iPod
Reply-To: Avery Pennarun <address@hidden>, address@hidden
From: Avery Pennarun <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
X-Mailer: reportbug 2.56
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:59:22 -0400

Package: gnupod-tools
Version: 0.98-2
Severity: normal

I uploaded a bunch of mp3 files to my iPod using gnupod_addsong.  It was
very straightforward, but after I did it, many of the songs wouldn't play. 
After some investigation, I noticed a pattern: songs with particularly long
names didn't seem to work.

I experimented with a few things and found to my surprise that changing id3
tags or iPod attributes for the files didn't help - they still didn't play. 
However, simply *renaming* the files and re-uploading them did work. 
Specifically, I have a file called:

        [01] York - The Reachers of Civilisation.mp3

Uploading it to my iPod with gnupod_addsong worked, but the song refused to
play.  However, if I do this:

        cp "*York*.mp3" york.mp3
        gnupod_addsong york.mp3

The song imports and plays just fine.

Are we overflowing a buffer or miswriting some binary data somewhere?

Thanks,

Avery


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.8
Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA

Versions of packages gnupod-tools depends on:
ii  libaudio-flac-header-perl     1.2-2      Perl interface to FLAC file header
ii  libmp3-info-perl              1.13-1     Perl MP3::Info - Manipulate / fetc
ii  libogg-vorbis-header-pureperl 0.07-2     A pure Perl interface to Ogg Vorbi
ii  libunicode-string-perl        2.07-1     Perl modules for Unicode strings
ii  libxml-parser-perl            2.34-4     Perl module for parsing XML files
ii  libxml-simple-perl            2.14-1     Perl module for reading and writin
ii  perl                          5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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