Playlist won't play MP3s

[Sausehuhn]

The title explains it pretty well.
I've imported a few of my own MP3s into the game and a few don't work. Yes, the music is at the right place, otherwise the playlist would not even show the tracks.
When I play the tracks in the playlist menu all I get is nothing or the first second of the track repeating itself over and over again.

Something wrong with the MP3s? Too big? Or what's the case with them?

Please help!

[qirex]

i have 57 mp3s on mem stick but only about 40 show up. I dont know why the others wont even show, however the ones that show up play flawlessly.

I would try convert them ( dbPowerAmp ) with different settings to different bitrates until the play... or play around with the filenames?!?

[Sausehuhn]

1st I thought the problem were the filenames, yes. If they are too long the full name won't show. But I have tracks that have too long filenames and they work. And then some non-working tracks have short enough names but they don't work nonetheless.
Ah and you can only use up to 30 own tracks in the game. That's what the manual says. If it's actually 40 they may changed that later when the manual was already done.

[Vincent_VII]

Spaces in the file names? Dashes or odd characters?

[qirex]

no its 30 is correct
didn't thought about the 16 original ones

well compare bitrates, vbr settings and stereo - joint stereo settings maybe. But for me its working with vbr and highest bitrate settings...

or maybe one of the devs can comment?

[ZenDJiNN]

I've added about 16 tracks of my own & removed most of the original tracks that came with the game (just to experiment) and it all works as it should. Great fun listening to your fave tunes while doing Time Trials or Zones etc.

Oh, and they're a variety of bitrates, mostly encoded at either 256 - 320k by myself from a variety of CD's. So maybe if there's a problem then it's some kind of strange coding, or split stereo or somesuch.

[tapioca]

I've spent much time solving this issue yesterday and here's what i found :

- the mp3 sample rate must be 44Khz in stereo (22Khz or others don't work in Pulse, although it can be played in the PSP's XMB. It's been very confusing to me at first, but i guess it has to match other Pulse sounds sample rate)

- some mp3 encoders signatures don't work (LAME is OK, iTunes too…, but i happened to cut some tracks in an external audio editor - Peak - and the resulting mp3 didn't play in Pulse). In this case, just re-encode it with your favourite app.
I can't tell for Window Media Player, as i'm on a mac.

- long track names don't seem to be an issue (Pulse just doesn't display the entire name).
- i didn't find anything special related to mp3 duration, bitrate (tried from 48 to 320Khz), special characters

[swift killer]

I think it's the same thing that usually used to happen with Window Media Player, it simply can't read certain mp3's for whatever reason.

Be sure you check your tags, bitrate, sample rate, etc., you might need to tweak your mp3's so they work.