Froyo problem: music player skips quiet/silent audio in mp3 file playback

[polecat99]

Is anyone else having this problem? (yes I searched the forums, and did not find anything).

I installed the Foryo (2.2) update last night, now when I play a mp3 audio file, the silent parts are automatically skipped/deleted. I suppose that most people might not even notice this problem if you just listen to music. I am listening to a foreign language learning program, where they say a word and then pause for 3-5 seconds so that the listener can repeat the word aloud a few times.
Ever since the froyo update, all of the pauses are skipped over automatically. It's very strange. The non-silent parts of the audio sound fine.
I have tried the default music player and I just installed and tried the mixzing player and they both have the same problem.

I tried a reboot, it didn't help. I have not tried a full factory reset yet. This problem seems more like a codec problem or something, and I doubt a factory reset would help.

If anyone else has had this problem, please let me know.
If anyone can confirm that a factory reset has fixed this problem, then I will try it.
thanks

 

[Kedar]

There was talk that Google acknowledged some bad audio quality in Froyo and is working on fixing that... but I haven't heard of skips in audio.

I'll look around and see what I can find.

 

[polecat99]

It is only skipping silent parts, so you normally would never notice this, unless you happen to be listening to mp3s that have long, intentional silent parts,. such as a language training CD.

 

[Kedar]

Have you tried another music player app?
Try Mixzing. That's the only other music app I know.
It's in the market for free.

 

[polecat99]

Yes. I tried mixzing and had the exact same problem.