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

bill wrote:
No
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Files don't mess themselves up. Either you have a virus or your system is
messed up (the FAT - file allocation table). The latter is my bet. An
"over the top" reinstall of the OS might fix it; if not, a format and
reinstall will. And setting to "read only" wouldn't help.


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"dadiOH" <dadiOH@invalid.com> wrote in message
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I'm pretty sure it's not a corrupted FAT since I've had this problem with
different hard drives. And I've even 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.

Mark

"dadiOH" <dadiOH@invalid.com> wrote in message
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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.

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.

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

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:16:25 -0400, "bill" <billjj@tufd.com>
wrote:

I think a good question might be - where are you getting these
files from? Commercial music store, P2P, what?

"Jyeshta" <whatever@twixtntween.com> wrote in message
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I am running up to date protection. I pay monthly to my service provider for
the latest and greatest protection. The music I have is from cd's I've
bought in a store . Except a few files I received from friends; those files
could
have been come from P2P sites or torrent sites.

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:59:27 -0400, "Billy"
<askhbfsao@hotmailer.com> wrote:

I've heard of mp3 corruption resulting from a defrag, but I
thought that was a freak occurrence. If your files are playing
portions of songs you never even put on your computer, I'm
wondering if maybe you listen to internet radio and have some
sort of automatic downloader add-on to a browser? I really don't
know. Or, if the songs are playing stuff you never put on your
computer, maybe those are the ones you got from friends. I do
remember in the old Kazaa days sometimes I'd dl a song that
started as named but then switched to a different song entirely.
So, perhaps that's the case with the songs you got from friends.
Otherwise, I'm wondering if the mp3 corruption could be due to a
defrag gone bad.

"Jyeshta" <whatever@twixtntween.com> wrote in message
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That sounds a bit like what I got. A song starts playing one song
that's already part of the way through and then ends and starts playing
a new song. But the weird thing is that originally it was playing the
correct song. It only becomes this new frankenstein song after a few
months. And it starts affecting other songs in the same folder for that
specific band or group. It doesn't affect any of 100's of other groups
or bands in my mp3 music collection, the corrution remains isolated
to a specific musical band or folder like the discography of Issac Hayes for
instace.

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:03:49 -0400, "Billy"
<askhbfsao@hotmailer.com> wrote:

I'd do a complete malware riddance. I don't have the link handy,
but there are very complete and long instructions for ridding
your computer of malware. This sounds like an infection of some
sort.

"Jyeshta" <whatever@twixtntween.com> wrote in message
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Your probably right. However, I do have anti-spyware and anti-virus
protection that periodically finds spyware on my computer. I do go to some
web sites
which are not secure, but I assume that my anti-spyware and anti-virus
protection would
protect me. I guess it's possible that when I go to some of these
"dangerous" sites my pc might
be open to attack - and hence the corrupted mp3's?

On Apr 22, 6:13*pm, "Billy" <ajfaba@ahj...@nospame.com> wrote:
What player are you using to play these files?

On May 21, 9:04*pm, mindfulness...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you run a ScanDisk after the problem happened (and before
reformatting)? Were you doing file cleanup and reorganization right
before the problem happened?

You'd be surprised how often large files can get corrupted when you
move large files between 'otherwise good' hard drives.

I actually added data corruption detection to the MP3-Boss program
because I saw that moving files between hard drives using Windows
Explorer would often result in the new file being slightly different.
You wouldn't get any error, and usually couldn't detect the problem by
ear -- but after doing this a lot you end up with significant
corruption. I don't know how often this happens, but what surprised
me most was that no errors were reported.

If you right-click the drive and select 'Properties", you can select
the "Tools" tab and then select Error-checking "Check Now". Good
luck.

John

On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:59:57 -0700 (PDT), John
<google-post@mp3-boss.com> wrote:

This surprised me because I constantly move large files across
physical drives and partitions. I did a search, and so far I
found:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t15779.html

which might have something to do with what you mention below.

The OP had a different sort of problem, I think, but this might
still be of interest. (I really think the OP's system is
infected with some form of malware but I don't have the link
handy for completely doing a malware rid. If you search Google
Groups for the Microsoft Public WinXP newusers group, for
"Malware Removal", it ought to be able to bring up several posts
with the link in it.)

On May 26, 1:49*pm, Jyeshta <whate...@twixtntween.com> wrote:
It's just that type of error that MP3-Boss will prevent -- you can
simply change the filepath in List View, and it will safely move the
file. It might look the same as copying a file in Windows Explorer --
but behind the scenes it first copies the file, then creates an MD5
checksum on the original and copy, and only deletes the original if
the MD5 matches.

I've seen it happen on more than 1 computer...and the computer
otherwise seemed to be running fine. I wouldn't doubt that it has
something to do with flaky RAM -- but what most surprised me about the
problem was that Windows Explorer doesn't report any error and just
blindly deletes the original.

I think the last time I saw the error was in Win98 (but maybe WinXP).
Do you know if errors like that are now detected in WinXP and VISTA?

John
http://www.mp3-boss.com
...the way to find and play the songs you want...

On May 26, 12:21*pm, John <google-p...@mp3-boss.com> wrote:
How does MP3-boss compare to MediaMonkey as far as archiving and
tagging goes? The main reason I was going to load MediaMonkey is that
they say it's one of the very best for very large collections (I have
about 150gigs of flacs, apes and mp3's and wav's) and it can do
everything (and more) that ITunes does for my IPod as well. (Obviously
I won't be using the sync function, I'll still add files manually to
my Pod.)

As to burning I have Nero so don't need MM's burning function, but I
believe MM rips flacs directly to MP3 which might come in handy...

For these reasons I was leaning towards MediaMonkey, but I'll look at
MP3-Boss.