Listening to mp3 file

Good evening,
I have an mp3 of a discussion between 2 professors which I've downloaded to my desktop. When I try to open it, the title comes up in iTunes but nothing else, the time is 0.00 seconds, in other words no time! How can I listen to this?
Many thanks,
Tim

I'm not sure, this is the first mp3 I've tried like this. The thing is I want to put it on my ipod so I can listen to it whilst I'm walking the dog.
The size is big but it seems about right duration wise.
I think one answer might be to download another mp3 player as you suggest. Any idea which one? Is it possible to convert the file into something else that iTunes might accept?
Thanks anyway for your comments.

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I created a button on my application and as soon as somebody presses that button, the application should scan recursivly a unique directory for mp3 files and store the information of artist, title and track length into a database.
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package de.hauke.schwimmbad.application.playground;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
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import java.util.List;
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import javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyObjectWrapper;
import javafx.embed.swing.JFXPanel;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.media.Media;
import javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.util.Duration;
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import javax.swing.UIManager;
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Sorry for my english but I hope everybody can understand the issue.
Many greetings,
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