High bitrate MP3s won't import to library

[Deadbolt]

I recently started importing MP3s from a network share. I noticed that the highest bitrate that would showup in my /library/music folder was 160 kbit/s. I have about 1700 songs encoded at 192 kbit (a very popular format) and would like to not have to reencode to 160 kbit. Is there a way to get it to recognize the 192 kbit? Does it have something to do with my decoders on my SageTV Server?

Thanks,
Deadbolt

[Mike Young]

I finally got a chance to check this out. I verified that mp3's at 256kbit show up correctly on my system, so I am guessing that it is a setup issue. I am wondering if it has to do with the encoding, did you do the encoding yourself or did they come from various sources ? Its kind of wierd that they dont import - as if the system is not recognizing them as valid.

[Deadbolt]

Thanks for the help Mike! I encoded them myself from CDs I own. Some files in the subdirectories are AAC from iTunes, but most (~1800 of 2000) are plain old MP3. I am importing the iTunes directory which has many subdirectories...is there a subdirectory depth level that the seeker traverses?

Thanks,
Deadbolt

[Mike Young]

thats a good question, I only have a couple levels.
I was thinking along the lines of if there is something a little different about the ripper you are using that for some reason the Sage machine is having a problem with. Im not an expert on MP3 but I think there can be differences even though the files may all be called MP3's....lame encoding for example. I
Probably best way to troubleshoot is try to import a few from a single directory right off the root. Also try a few from a local directory . If you can get them to come in, then you know its some kind of time-out or max sub directory issue.
Im not exactly sure what all the seeker checks, I know it does some checking because I have had lockups when there was a file with an encoding problem.
Sometimes Sage will generate a log file in the SageTV directory...thats how I solved my seeker lockup trouble.

[Deadbolt]

Problem is I'm on an old MB with 3 pci slots + 2 ISA slots + 1 AGP....1 pvr-350, 1 PVR-250, Sounblaster 5.1 Live Value takes up all PCI slots, vid vard in AGP and network card in ISA.

I would like to get rid of the ISA NIC for a PCI NIC I have sitting around because this NIC takes FOREVER to transfer files and also makes SageTV stutter. The PCI NIC does not.