Just got a nice new 30GB Ipod and am busily ripping my cd collection with Music Match..

Noticed a problem: Some of the tracks show lengths completely different from their actual lengths - i.e. in MM the song is correctly shown as 5:47 , the Ipod (and Ephod) shows it as 26:20. The track on the Ipod stops at the right time at least. Also, if I check the mp3's properties via Explorer the time is right. This isn't sporadic. Many of my mp3s are showing this problem.

One other thing I noticed: the songs with the wrong times listed in Ephod also show an odd encoding rate: 32kbs. Explorer shows this vbr mp3 (correctly!) as 325kbs!! I'll bet there is a parsing/buffer problem in the code somewhere.

What is Ephod doing to come up with that odd time? And what's the fix?

Thanks