Re: Corrupt mp3's problem

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bill typed on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:09:35 -0400:
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bill typed on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:26 -0400:
Hi,
I wonder if any of you have experienced this problem.
Mp3 files which played fine before later start playing parts from
other songs (some of which you don't even have.)
This has been happening to me for over a year. I thought it might
be a virus, but my virus scan finds nothing. I deleted the
corrupted mp3 files and then many months later some new downloaded
files (which were scanned virus free) become corrupted. It's weird.
Now I downloaded this program called MP3val which detects problems
with mp3's and supposedly repairs them(however, I tried repairing
some of my corrupted mp3's and it doesn't work). I read somewhere
that changing the properties of the mp3 file to "read me only"
might help. I suspect this problem might spread and affect other
mp3's in other folders. Anyway, I'm just starting to scan all my
mp3 files and delete all which have a problem and set all the
others to "Read Me Only" and place those files on a seperate hard
drive off line with no access to the internet. Some of these files
might be infected when downloaded and might infect others which
were previously safe on your hard drive. Anyone have any experience
with this sort of thing? Thanks for any help on this.

Mark

I never heard of MP3 corruption! Although it does sound like where
you are storing them has a problem. If it is a hard drive, surface
scan for disk errors. The same is true for flash drives. Although
when a flash drive starts showing errors, they tend to go very fast.

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Bill

It's not disk error or bad sectors since I have the same problem on
two different hard drives and one of the hard drives is brand new.
Besides I've repartitioned, and reformatted the hard drives without any errors
or bad sectors being detected. Also, I'm pretty sure it's not a
corrupted FAT since I've had this problem with different hard drives
and I've repartitioned, reformatted, and reinstalled the os on those
hard drives and still had the same problem. I also pay an extra $5.95 a month for
security service from my isp. I have installed the latest security
service from my isp which constantly updates my antivirus, firewall
and anti-spyware.

What's weird is that a mp3 song which previously played correctly
later starts
playing pieces of other songs or even songs which I don't have oddly
enough. For example, a song by Issac Hayes which before played Issac
Hayes starts playing
a part of a The Clash or Bob Dylan song instead.

Mark

I know that is so weird! If the hard drives are okay, next it might be is flaky RAM. Next would be the support chips on the motherboard. But it is just MP3 files you say? That is so weird. Sounds like you need a priest to come and bless your hardware to me. :-(

--
Bill

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