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Music shows wrong length on both glance view and music app

byf3332
5 months ago

As title says, the duration of music is shown incorrect on my fr955 solar, which is longer than the actual file. This situation only happens if i imported mp3 files with their bitrate lower than 320kbps. If the bitrate is 320 kbps, the length of that file is reported correctly.

firmware version 19.18

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  • 0 5 months ago

    btw I also want to mention the sorting of song titles, which is completely out of sequence and i don't know how to get it back to alphabetical order. Also languages beside English (Chinese for example) is sorted with utf-8 order i think, which is definitely not a good way. Hanyu Pinyin sequence should be the best choice for that. 

    I've written something to create playlist in the correct order: https://github.com/byf3332/GarminWatchMusicPlaylistGenerator. Just use as you want.

  • 0 5 months ago in reply to byf3332

    I think this is a legit bug and you should report it to Garmin ([email protected] or https://support.garmin.com/)

    However, most ppl probably use Spotify rather than importing MP3s, which might explain the lack of responses to this thread. I happen to do both, since I download some stuff from youtube (and other sources) that isn't available on Spotify, but I feel like I'm in a tiny minority. Having said that, I haven't seen the length problem, even with MP3s with a lower bitrate than 320.

    Can't comment on the sorting problem as I've always used .m3u playlists to organize my local music files on my Garmin. I feel like alphabetical order is probably wrong for most use cases anyway (except maybe for podcast episodes.)

    I have a 955 with firmware 19.18.

  • 0 5 months ago in reply to FlowState

    thanks for reminding, already reported

    btw for the sorting, i think language settings affect sorting? My first language is Chinese and once i change my watch language to English, all English-titled music in the "Songs" menu is listed according to English letter order, but Chinese still utf-8?? Strange but kinda explained the situation to me.