Re: Corrupt mp3's problem

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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

You might consider downloading another anti-virus checking program or two
and have them check the system, while in the safe mode. I have had
occasions where one or even two different programs reported the system to be
virus free only to have a third program find the culprit. Don't forget
rootkit checkers as well. A worm program that pops up, changes things and
then hides again can be difficult to identify, let alone kill.

Does the problem occur with only one specific MP3 playing program or do more
than one player give the same corrupted playback? If you have not tried any
other players give (Media Player Classic, not from Microsoft), Winamp, or
Screamer Radio, a try and see how they handle things.




I've scanned with several different types of antivirus software. Besides like I mentioned
I pay montly for the latest and the greatest software from my internet service provider.
I'm using Windows xp. However, I've had this problem before using Windows 98.
I use Winamp, but I've also experienced this problem using Windows Media
Player.

I just think I received a corrupted file from somewhere - a friend or whatever. It's not affecting
the rest of my music files, of which I have around 350GB. Only 2 or 3 are affected out of 350GB's.
Which is how many files - must be millions. I don't know. Besides I'm too drunk now.

Mark


You get what you pay for.
.

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