What's with this strange audio time?

Question

Almost every time I download a song from youtube through vixy.net, when I play it on winamp or any other music playing program, it's a whopping 29 minutes or so for some reason. Why is this happening?

Answer 1

this is most likely due to incorrect xing headers in the mp3 file. you can use an mp3 repair program to fix it (although it still may not fix it completely). a quick google search turns up programs like this one http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_va...