Amazon Autorip MP3 tracks

[Linkaday]

Can't really believe that i should be the only one.
Anybody here who bought MP3s or "Autorip" from Amazon recently and can confirm XY refusing to play the tracks,
showing cover instead on IP - while WMP, VLC, Winamp, AIMP, foobar just go in medias res.
Background: part of the deal with record labels was to attach a non-ambiguous ID to tracks,
that i found residing in the commentary field - so this is nothing special
(checked it: wrote random IDs to commentary fields of ripped tracks).

But file header looks like this

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ID3·····xxPRIV·· ···www.amazon.com·········································································································
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·M·a·t·e·r· ·i·n· ·F· ·m·i·n·o·r·,· ·R·V· ·6·2·1·:· ·I·.· ·L·a·r·g·o·TPE1···+···ÿþR·i·n·a·l·d·o· 
·A·l·e·s·s·a·n·d·r·i·n·i·TALB·······ÿþC·o·n·t·r·a·l·t·o·TCON·······ÿþC·l·a·s·s·i·c·a·l·TCOM···9···ÿþA·n·t·o·n·i·o· ·V·i·v·a·l·d·i· ·
(·1·6·7·8·-·1·7·4·1·)·TPE3·······ÿþTRCK·······ÿþ1·/·2·2·TYER·······ÿþ2·0·0·2·TPE2·······ÿþS·a·r·a· 
·M·i·n·g·a·r·d·o·COMM···

where the xx is an apparently encrypted part individual to the track

[bdeshi]

You're not the only one. http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11709 an explanation is given over on that topic by Don.

Curiously I've not yet been able to repro this, even though almost all my tracks have album arts attached

[Linkaday]

Thanks, Sammay! And sorry, searched for "amazon" and had no hits.
Because i have - as you said - hundreds of albums containing album art, older amazon buys too, which XY plays uncomplainingly - so i thought, that there must be something special with the newer ones, due to lobby pressure. And i still think it`s the overlong 00 (HEX) part (i shortened for display convenience). IP always shows "MPEG-header position found" on regular older files - and i can see for a flash "Cannot decode" before it shows the cover. That fits with Don's clarification.

Address of header data now generally seems to be
00002020: 00 00 00 54 49 54 32 00 00 00 25 00 00 01 FF FE ; ···TIT2···%···ÿþ
(Checked it only on a few but diverse files)

Has anyone of the scripters any idea, how we can tell the shell to WAIT / hold it's breath, before it makes it's decision?

[bdeshi]

I just found a fix.*
Install a codec pack, I've got K-lite Codec Pack here. (although recent versions offer a spamware at the ending stage of install; earlier version in my archives, v 10.05, does not have that )


* Along with some other essential apps, I always install media codecs in new OSes. However, I very recently installed Win8 but codecs hadn't been installed yet. After reading this posttopic, I tried a random track with album art, and you can guess what happened (hint: no play). So I installed the codecs and voila, the preview returned to normalcy as I always had it before!