Incorrect song lengths = premature song cut-offs.

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Hello,

First, thanks for putting together this app.  It’s well done, highly
anticipated, and greatly appreciated.  I was the first to write a review
and happily gave it 5 stars.

However, I’ve found a problem:  Songs or song lengths are not being
downloaded correctly and songs are getting cut off.

At first I thought songs were being dropped, but then I noticed that the
songs on many albums were being cut-off, as if the recording was over.
After comparing song length times to the times on 1) the cd 2) itunes and
3) my mp3tunes locker, I noticed that even though these 3 players showed
roughly the same song length, the length reported on airband could be 10 to
40 seconds less.  

Weirdly, this does not happen on all albums.  Nor is the time shaved
consistent.  (It may be a percentage, I didn’t do the math.)

I would be happy to offer specific examples if you want to contact me.  At
first I thought there were problems with the cd ripping or the mp3tunes
locker uploading, but all those check out.  For some odd reason, airband
thinks the songs are shorter than they really are.  (And not all song, so
go figure.)

For instance:  Killing Joke, “Love Like Blood” off the album Night Time can
be played directly off my mp3tunes locker player and clocks in at 6:50. 
According to the airband app, this song is 6:00, stops playing at 6:00 and
robs me of the final 50 seconds of the song.

Thanks for looking into this, and I hope I can be of some help.

Erik Calcott

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ecalc...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2009 at 7:42

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Erik,
  thanks for checking out the app and the good review.   I think the song length gets
cut off because we approximate it -- and incorrectly at that.    There's 
definitely
some suspicious hacky bits in there that the next release should resolve.

Original comment by scot.shinderman on 23 Sep 2009 at 3:36

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Thanks for the reply/acknowledgment. I don't know if this is completely true or 
not,
but more recent albums/songs seem to be ok while older material tends to have 
this
problem.

Let me know if you need any examples or help. (I can send you a database of my 
21,000
songs' lengths.) Otherwise I'll patiently wait for the next release.  

Thanks again for all the efforts on the excellent app.  Take care.

Original comment by ecalc...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2009 at 7:44