Unable to play certain MP3 files

[Triplexit]

Hello. I downloaded several audiobooks, and none of them can be played on either Homer player 1 or 2. Other free players like Simple ABP or PlayBook play these files without problems. Only if I convert these MP3 files to MP3 do the Homer players start to see them. Apparently some codecs are missing. If you want to check out one such problematic MP3, it is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lJYk0eItSWj2euU9Pv_WRppbsiVyHC-y/view

[msimonides]

The module I use for playback (ExoPlayer/androidx-media3) is unable to parse the headers. The file does contain some garbage (ffmpeg shows 5 bytes but can skip them and play it anyway, MP3 Diags shows a lot is wrong: 2 streams, several tags blocks).
Windows Media Player and VLC can play it.

We could report the file to the media3 project, maybe they can add a workaround, if the think it's worth it.