Re: Corrupt mp3's problem

bill wrote:
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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 think you need to do a chkdsk /f from a command prompt. This will check your HD for errors, and fix those found. You can do the /r switch which will also check for bad sectors, and map those out. If you are using Vista, right-click the Command Prompt icon, select Run as Administrator.

You might also do a deep virus check overnight to see if there is a trojan/virus that might be affecting your *.mp3 files.

What player are you using? If it is RealPlayer, dump it, or upgrade it. Windows Media Player is not exactly friendly to *.mp3, but iTunes is. I know that some don't like iTunes, but it works for me under XP and Vista.

If you can see SMART data from Bios Setup or some other application, review the SMART data for disk errors.

Q
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