Bug#433885: juk: Fails to play certain MP3s

[Kevin McKernan <screamkev@comcast.net>]

Package: juk
Version: 4:3.5.7-2
Severity: important

Hi,

I've recently been unable to play certain MP3s in JuK. I never had any issues with these particular files until just a few weeks ago.

Attempting to play them does absolutely nothing. It can be frustrating because once JuK hits one, it just stops altogether (it doesn't just skip it).

While I cannot say for sure exactly what is causing this, I can say that it looks like iTunes Album Art may possibly have something to do with it.

After dealing with this issue for the past couple weeks, I recently noticed a pattern -- it seems like the songs that are giving me trouble are those that have iTunes Album Art embedded in them. 
This cannot be due to any recent change in iTunes, however, as these files have not been touched by anything but JuK for years and I never had any issues with them until now.

As a test, I copied one of the files that was giving me trouble to my Mac and removed the album art from it in iTunes. After copying it back, JuK played it without any issues at all.

My apologies if this bug belongs to a different package (perhaps mpeglib?).

Thanks in advance.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages juk depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a             4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libakode2               2.0.2-2          akode plugin for aRts
ii  libarts1c2a             1.5.7-2          aRts sound system core components
ii  libc6                   2.6-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.12.13-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0      0.10.13-2        Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.7-5        Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070712-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtag1c2a              1.4-8+b1         TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.29.dfsg-1    GNOME XML library

juk recommends no packages.

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