PLAYMP3 test program assertion fail when asked to play very small MP3 files

[joncampbell123]

Asking PLAYMP3.EXE to play an MP3 file that is zero length or very small triggers an assertion failure when you start playing.

[ghost]

Confirmed that WAV (58 bytes) or MP3 (660 bytes) files cause the win32 and dos versions to freeze. Also, tested dos version against pc speaker and soundblaster emulation.

Used sndrec.exe to save an empty wav file and then converted to mp3 with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg.exe -i test1.wav -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192k -f mp3 test1.mp3

[ghost]

Disregard the above, now the empty wav and mp3 files are both working in win32 and dos (dos386f version; 1-25-17). This time the wav file (80 bytes) was created by sox (v14.4.1):
./sox -n test.wav trim 0 0

And the mp3 file (803 bytes):
./ffmpeg -i test.wav -ab 128k -f mp3 test.mp3