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Bug 2765

Summary: Mix_LoadMUS(.mp3) crashes when MP3 file has an album art embedded
Product: SDL_mixer Reporter: Philippe <philippe.carvalho_7500>
Component: miscAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: saurabh.tw, sezeroz
Version: 2.0.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Windows 7   

Description Philippe 2014-10-23 22:47:01 UTC 
Using function Mix_LoadMUS() in order to load a MP3 image file makes the application crash when the MP3 image file has an album art embedded (you can see it, for example, while it plays on Windows Media Player). It may also be some tag associated with the file that causes the problem.

How to reproduce :

1)Download a MP3 file that has an album art embedded in it (I personally used the track Round Drums by Kevin MacLeod : http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100561 )

2)Place it in your project directory.

3)Load it with Mix_LoadMUS().

The application should crash and the console should indicate the following :

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what<>: std::bad_alloc
 
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.
 
Process returned 3 (etc.)

It is very likely that it is the album art (or at least some tag associated with the file) that caused the problem, because I solved it by downloading the software "Mp3Tag" ( http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ ) and removing all tags associated with the MP3 file, including the album art. I had already tried to remove textual tags such as "author", "title", etc. by hand but it did not have any effect.
Comment 1 saurabh tiwari 2015-07-23 09:07:34 UTC 
smpeg2.dll, which is being used is old and have some issue.
If we rebuild smpeg2.dll and use the new one, It will fix this issue.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2017-10-18 07:30:14 UTC 
Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_mixer/rev/23626ec410c8
Comment 3 Ozkan Sezer 2017-10-18 08:21:03 UTC 
Please also change smpeg default option to no in configury:

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -573,8 +573,8 @@
               [], enable_music_mp3=yes)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(music-mp3-smpeg,
-AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-music-mp3-smpeg], [enable MP3 music via smpeg [[default=yes]]]),
-              [], enable_music_mp3_smpeg=yes)
+AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-music-mp3-smpeg], [enable MP3 music via smpeg [[default=no]]]),
+              [], enable_music_mp3_smpeg=no)
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([music-mp3-smpeg-shared],
 AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-music-mp3-smpeg-shared], [dynamically load smpeg library [[default=yes]]]),
               [], [enable_music_mp3_smpeg_shared=yes])
diff --git a/configure b/configure
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@
                           dynamically load FLAC library [[default=yes]]
   --enable-music-mp3      enable MP3 music [[default=yes]]
   --enable-music-mp3-smpeg
-                          enable MP3 music via smpeg [[default=yes]]
+                          enable MP3 music via smpeg [[default=no]]
   --enable-music-mp3-smpeg-shared
                           dynamically load smpeg library [[default=yes]]
   --disable-smpegtest     Do not try to compile and run a test SMPEG program
@@ -12567,7 +12567,7 @@
 if test "${enable_music_mp3_smpeg+set}" = set; then :
   enableval=$enable_music_mp3_smpeg;
 else
-  enable_music_mp3_smpeg=yes
+  enable_music_mp3_smpeg=no
 fi
 
 # Check whether --enable-music-mp3-smpeg-shared was given.