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I have WinXP SP2 and VLC v0.8.6b
Other players (WMP, MPC) can play these files, but VLC not.
I upload one of these files (05-Mr. Zebra.mp3 1.3MB) to
ftp://streams.videolan.org/incoming/
Whats the problem?

It seems that VLC cant handle all TAGs in MP3 file

320kbps ?

No, these are 128Kbps.
Please check file "05-Mr. Zebra.mp3", i uploaded it to ftp://streams.videolan.org/incoming/

I ran VLC with debug output, here it is

-- logger module started --
main debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow! MMXEXT SSE FPU
main debug: looking for memcpy module: 4 candidates
main debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: thread 3620 (playlist) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:184)
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: thread 3636 (preparser) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:210)
main debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
main debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
main debug: thread 3660 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
main debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
logger: VLC media player - version 0.8.5 Janus - (c) 1996-2006 the VideoLAN team
logger:
Warning: if you can't access the GUI anymore, open a command-line window, go to the directory where you installed VLC and run "vlc -I wx"

logger: using logger...
logger warning: no log filename provided, using `vlc-log.txt'
logger debug: opening logfile `vlc-log.txt'
main debug: using interface module "logger"
main debug: thread 3688 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
main debug: adding playlist item `05-mr. zebra.mp3' ( 05-mr. zebra.mp3 )
main debug: looking for interface module: 3 candidates
main debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
main debug: thread 3716 (manager) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:216)
wxwidgets debug: Using last windows config '(-1,0,0,1280,1024)(0,858,66,355,125)(6,0,0,-1,150)'
wxwidgets debug: id=0 p=(858,66) s=(355,125)
wxwidgets debug: id=6 p=(0,0) s=(-1,150)
main debug: nothing requested, starting
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: creating statistics handler
main debug: `05-mr. zebra.mp3' gives access `' demux `' path `05-mr. zebra.mp3'
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='05-mr. zebra.mp3'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate
main debug: creating access '' path='05-mr. zebra.mp3'
main debug: looking for access2 module: 5 candidates
vcd debug: trying .cue file: 05-mr. zebra.cue
access_file debug: opening file `05-mr. zebra.mp3'
main debug: using access2 module "access_file"
main debug: pre-buffering...
main debug: received first data for our buffer
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='05-mr. zebra.mp3'
main debug: ID3v2.3 revision 0 tag found, skipping 4608 bytes
main debug: looking for demux2 module: 44 candidates
main debug: looking for packetizer module: 17 candidates
main debug: using packetizer module "mpeg_audio"
mpga debug: did not sync on first block
main debug: selecting program id=0
main debug: looking for id3 module: 1 candidate
id3tag debug: checking for ID3 tag
id3tag debug: found ID3v1 tag
id3tag debug: found ID3v2 tag
main debug: using id3 module "id3tag"
main debug: removing module "id3tag"
main debug: using demux2 module "mpga"
main debug: looking for a subtitle file in Z:\NT\VideoLAN\VLC\
main debug: looking for decoder module: 27 candidates
main debug: using decoder module "mpeg_audio"
main debug: thread 3892 (decoder) created at priority 2 (input/decoder.c:159)
main debug: meta information:
main debug: - 'Title' = 'Mr. Zebra'
main debug: - 'Artist' = 'Tori Amos'
main debug: - 'Album/movie/show title' = 'Boys for Pele'
main debug: - 'Date' = '1996'
main debug: - 'Track number/position in set' = '5'
main debug: - 'Genre' = 'Rock'
main debug: - 'Title' = 'Mr. Zebra'
main debug: - 'Track number/position in set' = '5'
main debug: - 'Publisher' = 'Atlantic'
main debug: - 'Genre' = 'Rock'
main debug: - 'Album/movie/show title' = 'Boys for Pele'
main debug: - 'Band/orchestra/accompaniment' = 'Tori Amos'
main debug: - 'Composer' = 'Tori Amos'
main debug: - 'Artist' = 'Tori Amos'
main debug: - 'Date' = '1996'
main debug: `05-mr. zebra.mp3' successfully opened
main debug: EOF reached
main debug: thread 3800 (input) created at priority 1 (input/input.c:261)
main debug: closing input
main debug: removing module "mpeg_audio"
main debug: removing module "mpga"
main debug: removing module "access_file"
main debug: removing module "mpeg_audio"
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.140201s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 3892 joined (input/decoder.c:191)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `mpga', 0 PES in FIFO
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.170244s, kernel 0m0.050072s, user 0m0.020028s
main debug: thread 3800 joined (input/input.c:399)
main: nothing to play



Last row "Nothing to play" ???
Correct duration of song is 1min 07secs

These files have three ID3 tags, ID3v1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4.
It seems that VLC can handle only one ID3 tag in MP3-file.