Mp3 playback bug after update (size greater than 8 MB & Bitrate 192...)

Question

okay, after the upgrade to the itunes version 7.4 something strange happened. I couldn't play some files any more. After some testing i figured out that the affected files had a pattern - namely:
size > 8MB &
Bitrate > 192 &
No Album Picture
This isn't a quicktime bug - quicktime can play these songs fine. I think that there is some error with the "pre" loading of the album artwork for files of that kind. I'd classify this as a serious bug because one of my favorite albums (nick cave) is affected from this bug
regards,
Georg

Answer 1

I've solved it.
The problem is that itunes can't read certain mp3 tag informations after the update (7.4) any more (although mostof these tags were creted with former itunes versions).
What I did was to remove all mp3 tags in my library with a tool called mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de). Afterwards I let itunes recreate the mp3tags. It looks as if the metadata is stored twice: once in the mp3tag and in the database.
anyhow. Itunes recreates the correct mp3tag out of its database if the tag was deleted from the file.
that did the trick -without having to recreate the database.
PS: Steve should send me a free mp3 player, because it took me 2 days to fix this problem.
PPS: Use a script like the following to find all dead track before doing as said before:
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/* Rename me to FindDeadTracks.js
Double Click in Explorer to run
Script by Otto - http://ottodestruct.com */
var ITTrackKindFile = 1;
var iTunesApp = WScript.CreateObject("iTunes.Application");
var deletedTracks = 0;
var mainLibrary = iTunesApp.LibraryPlaylist;
var tracks = mainLibrary.Tracks;
var numTracks = tracks.Count;
var i;
var fso, tf;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
tf = fso.CreateTextFile("Dead Tracks.txt", true);
while (numTracks != 0)
var currTrack = tracks.Item(numTracks);
// is this a file track?
if (currTrack.Kind == ITTrackKindFile)
// yes, does it have an empty location?
if (currTrack.Location == "")
// write info about the track to a file
tf.WriteLine(currTrack.Artist + "," + currTrack.Album + "," + currTrack.Name);
deletedTracks++;
numTracks--;
if (deletedTracks > 0)
if (deletedTracks == 1)
WScript.Echo("Found 1 dead track.");
else
WScript.Echo("Found " + deletedTracks + " dead tracks.");
else
WScript.Echo("No dead tracks were found.");
tf.Close();
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