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From: Bill on 18 Apr 2008 03:45

"GlowingBlueMist" <nobody(a)invalid.com> wrote in message
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> "bill" <billjj(a)tufd.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> "BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote in message
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>>> In news:HNMNj.23$uT6.13484(a)weber.videotron.net,
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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


From: G.G.Willikers on 18 Apr 2008 05:47
Bill wrote:
> "GlowingBlueMist" <nobody(a)invalid.com> wrote in message
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>> "bill" <billjj(a)tufd.com> wrote in message
>> news:RfNNj.27$uT6.13504(a)weber.videotron.net...
>>> "BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote in message
>>> news:48079af9$0$6429$834e42db(a)reader.greatnowhere.com...
>>>> In news:HNMNj.23$uT6.13484(a)weber.videotron.net,
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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.
From: Richard Carpenter on 19 Apr 2008 00:00
"bill" <billjj(a)tufd.com> wrote in message
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>
> "BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote in message
> news:48079af9$0$6429$834e42db(a)reader.greatnowhere.com...
>> In news:HNMNj.23$uT6.13484(a)weber.videotron.net,
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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.
>

Are you playing them directly from the hard drive (double-clicking them in
Windows Explorer/My Computer) or through some music library program? It's
possible that a music library program could get its indexes out of whack and
not display song you may actually have (whether you remember ever getting
them or not) and the program playing the music could be munging the data as
it read it from the disk as a result.

Have you tried playing those affected MP3 files on any portable devices? If
so, what method did you use to transfer them from the hard drive to the
device?

--
Richard Carpenter

From: Quaoar on 19 Apr 2008 19:55
bill wrote:
> "BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote in message
> news:48079af9$0$6429$834e42db(a)reader.greatnowhere.com...
>> In news:HNMNj.23$uT6.13484(a)weber.videotron.net,
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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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