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Two Point Hospital

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IzzyFlames 5 19 Jun, 2020 @ 7:06pm
Why are some music tracks having trouble decoding?
I'm looking at the log it told me to check and it makes no sense. I made two Music Packs today and only one of them has tracks that won't decode. However, the log only directly mentions the one that had no problems. Is there anything I should know or are these issues random? I've attempted to re-download the tracks that don't work, but that hasn't helped. I don't know if they might have some DRM or whatever--I bought them online (something I never do) because I couldn't find the full album.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

EDIT: My fiancé messed around for a while. What finally seemed to work was using an online audio converter. I'm not sure why this did the trick as the files were already mp3s. But hopefully this helps other people sort their own tracks out if they're as clueless as I am about these things.

Last edited by IzzyFlames; 19 Jun, 2020 @ 8:00pm
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Marlock 20 Jun, 2020 @ 6:46am 
compare the ones that work and the ones that don't...

look for differences in these characteristics:

constant/variable bitrate
bitrate
Hz
mono/joint stereo/stereo/surround

what encoder did you use? lame mp3 or something else (if you don't know, what software)? and which online converter?

ps: depending on the software, it might not necessarily be designed to respect the usual association between file extension .mp3 and audio stream encoding as actual mp3... not likely but possible sometimes
Last edited by Marlock; 20 Jun, 2020 @ 6:48am
IzzyFlames 5 20 Jun, 2020 @ 1:40pm 
I wasn't the one who was looking at all the audio information, so I will have to ask my fiancé. I'll also need to re-download the files (bought them online). I'll post here if there are differences.

The online converter used was online-audio-converter, conveniently enough.
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