diff --git a/rust/mimi-pyo3/Cargo.toml b/rust/mimi-pyo3/Cargo.toml
index 64c9534..f7c772f 100644
--- a/rust/mimi-pyo3/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/mimi-pyo3/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 anyhow = "1"
 numpy = "0.21.0"
 pyo3 = "0.21.0"
-moshi = { path = "../moshi-core", version = "0.2.1" }
+moshi = { path = "../moshi-core", version = "0.2.2" }
diff --git a/rust/mimi-pyo3/src/lib.rs b/rust/mimi-pyo3/src/lib.rs
index 5f033ea..ee696aa 100644
--- a/rust/mimi-pyo3/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/mimi-pyo3/src/lib.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ macro_rules! py_bail {
     };
 }
 
-fn encodec_cfg() -> encodec::Config {
+fn encodec_cfg(max_seq_len: Option<usize>) -> encodec::Config {
     let seanet_cfg = seanet::Config {
         dimension: 512,
         channels: 1,
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ fn encodec_cfg() -> encodec::Config {
         kv_repeat: 1,
         conv_layout: true, // see builders.py
         cross_attention: false,
-        max_seq_len: 4096,
+        max_seq_len: max_seq_len.unwrap_or(8192), // the transformer works at 25hz so this is ~5 mins.
     };
     encodec::Config {
         channels: 1,
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ struct Tokenizer {
 
 #[pymethods]
 impl Tokenizer {
-    #[pyo3(signature = (path, *, dtype="f32"))]
+    #[pyo3(signature = (path, *, dtype="f32", max_seq_len=None))]
     #[new]
-    fn new(path: std::path::PathBuf, dtype: &str) -> PyResult<Self> {
+    fn new(path: std::path::PathBuf, dtype: &str, max_seq_len: Option<usize>) -> PyResult<Self> {
         let device = candle::Device::Cpu;
         let dtype = match dtype {
             "f32" => candle::DType::F32,
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ impl Tokenizer {
         };
         let vb =
             unsafe { candle_nn::VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[path], dtype, &device).w()? };
-        let cfg = encodec_cfg();
+        let cfg = encodec_cfg(max_seq_len);
         let encodec = encodec::Encodec::new(cfg, vb).w()?;
         Ok(Self { encodec, device, dtype })
     }
@@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ struct StreamTokenizer {
 
 #[pymethods]
 impl StreamTokenizer {
-    #[pyo3(signature = (path, *, dtype="f32"))]
+    #[pyo3(signature = (path, *, dtype="f32", max_seq_len=None))]
     #[new]
-    fn new(path: std::path::PathBuf, dtype: &str) -> PyResult<Self> {
+    fn new(path: std::path::PathBuf, dtype: &str, max_seq_len: Option<usize>) -> PyResult<Self> {
         let device = candle::Device::Cpu;
         let dtype = match dtype {
             "f32" => candle::DType::F32,
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ impl StreamTokenizer {
         };
         let vb =
             unsafe { candle_nn::VarBuilder::from_mmaped_safetensors(&[path], dtype, &device).w()? };
-        let cfg = encodec_cfg();
+        let cfg = encodec_cfg(max_seq_len);
         let mut e_encodec = encodec::Encodec::new(cfg, vb).w()?;
         let mut d_encodec = e_encodec.clone();
         let (encoder_tx, e_rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel::<Vec<f32>>();
diff --git a/rust/moshi-backend/Cargo.toml b/rust/moshi-backend/Cargo.toml
index b15ff42..5de5d0b 100644
--- a/rust/moshi-backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/moshi-backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ rcgen = "0.13.1"
 http = "1.1.0"
 lazy_static = "1.5.0"
 log = "0.4.20"
-moshi = { path = "../moshi-core", version = "0.2.1" }
+moshi = { path = "../moshi-core", version = "0.2.2" }
 ogg = { version = "0.9.1", features = ["async"] }
 opus = "0.3.0"
 rand = { version = "0.8.5", features = ["getrandom"] }