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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
On Monday, July 30, 2012 4:06:28 PM UTC-4, John On Friday, July 20, 2012 4:02:21 PM UTC-4, John Williamson wrote:
-- Tciao for Now! John. _____________________ John: Repl Monitor finally arrived! Below is transcript of attempt to run chkdsk /f: # # # Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\system32net user administrator /active yes The command completed successfully. C:\Windows\system32chkdisk /f 'chkdisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Hardly surprising when you typed the command wrongly. :-) C:\Windows\system32chkdsk /f The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. chkdsk needs to lock the HD while it's running, and can't do this if Windows is also running. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) What happened when you typed in "Y" and rebooted? -- Tciao for Now! John. ____________________ John: Right-clicked the C: drive and followed your instructions. Some of the items returned: "Some Problems Were Found And fixed" "0 bad file records processed." "0 EA records processed" (whatever EA means) "61 reparse records processed" "Windows found problems with the file system Run chkdsk with the /f fix option to correct these" End of quotes from windows. I wish it would tell me specifically what the errors were before I elected to use /f!  |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
tg Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another tg process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be tg checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) did you answer Yes or No? Yes would be the proper answer followed by a reboot  -- | Remove .my.foot for email | via Waldo's Place USA Fidonet-Internet Gateway Site | Waldo's Place USA 919-774-5930 telnet://bbs.wpusa.dynip.com | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
On Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:19:00 PM UTC-4, wrote:
__________________ July 31: Just a GENERAL UPDATE on the condition of my hard drive. My HP Pavilion's Hardware diagnostics app deployed as it does every month and found zero problems with item including but not limited to: "Hard Drive: Random Tests, funnel tests, surface scans, SMART tests NVIDIA Video driver Network cable, TCP/IP CMOS Checksum, Pattern test Pentium Cache, register tests, CCU, multicore all ok" So I honestly think we can rule out the hard-drive and hardware. I'm beginning to feel that the focus is on two areas: Windows Media Player(I looked for updates and MS says mine is the latest and all updates installed), and "free" mp3 sites. I no longer use limewire(ran it from late 2008 for about a year. BeeMP3 and such sites are drying up anyhow, so I no longer bother with them. I've made CD-R backups of mp3s from on-line resources and have my CD collection as the ultimate backup of the rest of them. So the best thing I can say to you folks is: STAY AWAY from "free" sites: you might also be downloading a major headache. Go Amazon, iTunes, be straight! -CC |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
Have you done a complete, full, scan with Malwarebytes?
That's probably the most important thing to do. My prediction: it won't find the problem. Doug McDonald |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
wrote in message ... So the best thing I can say to you folks is: STAY AWAY from "free" sites: you might also be downloading a major headache. Go Amazon, iTunes, be straight! In fact your less likely to have problems with mp3's from "free" sites than ones that impose any sort of DRM. Trevor. |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
Trevor:
In fact your less likely to have problems with mp3's from "free" sites than ones that impose any sort of DRM. Trevor. _____ Now that's something you'll NEVER get me on board! Maybe no drm, but God knows WHAT ELSE. No thanks! Besides, such sites will likely be extinct by mid-decade. Rip your own CDs, record from cassettes & vinyl, or purchase from the major sites. That's my strategy and I'm sticking to it! -ChrisCoaster |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
Trevor wrote:
wrote in message ... So the best thing I can say to you folks is: STAY AWAY from "free" sites: you might also be downloading a major headache. Go Amazon, iTunes, be straight! In fact your less likely to have problems with mp3's from "free" sites than ones that impose any sort of DRM. What sort of DRM have you seen on mp3 files? I ask because as far as I'm aware, it's a DRM free format at the moment, and there's no provision for DRM in the specification. I did get caught out by HMV selling me a couple of WMA files which I couldn't play back after they closed down their licence server, but that's a different kettle of fish. Still, some generous person had put them up on Youtube, so I can still listen to them. -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
"John Williamson" wrote in message ... Trevor wrote: wrote in message ... So the best thing I can say to you folks is: STAY AWAY from "free" sites: you might also be downloading a major headache. Go Amazon, iTunes, be straight! In fact your less likely to have problems with mp3's from "free" sites than ones that impose any sort of DRM. What sort of DRM have you seen on mp3 files? I ask because as far as I'm aware, it's a DRM free format at the moment, and there's no provision for DRM in the specification. I did get caught out by HMV selling me a couple of WMA files which I couldn't play back after they closed down their licence server, but that's a different kettle of fish. Still, some generous person had put them up on Youtube, so I can still listen to them. Yes, I wasn't thinking of mp3 only since iTunes was mentioned. Beware what YouTube does to sound quality however. Trevor. |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
Trevor wrote:
"John Williamson" wrote:- I did get caught out by HMV selling me a couple of WMA files which I couldn't play back after they closed down their licence server, but that's a different kettle of fish. Still, some generous person had put them up on Youtube, so I can still listen to them. Yes, I wasn't thinking of mp3 only since iTunes was mentioned. Beware what YouTube does to sound quality however. Ah, right you are. No DRM on mp3, then. As for YouBend, I know what it does to audio quality, but as these are recordings of singing with a piano from the 1940s, I'm not too worried about the quality. -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
Reply to John Williamson:
You have to be really really really naive to believe that MP3 cannot be DRMd: http://forums.mobiledia.com/topic41322-0-asc-10.html http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_MP3 By implication that it sells drm free it means that drm mp3 exists! That's why I'm staying away from free sites because you don't know what CRAP is being packaged with those mp3s! ** My problem is solved - It's a combination of free mp3s and my Windows media player. *I've already posted my solution; I'm staying safe! |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
wrote in message
... Reply to John Williamson: You have to be really really really naive to believe that MP3 cannot be DRMd: http://forums.mobiledia.com/topic41322-0-asc-10.html http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_MP3 By implication that it sells drm free it means that drm mp3 exists! That's why I'm staying away from free sites because you don't know what CRAP is being packaged with those mp3s! My problem is solved - It's a combination of free mp3s and my Windows media player. I've already posted my solution; I'm staying safe! So you don't really know what actually caused the problem, you don't really understand how it was solved, and you haven't a clue how to prevent it from happening in the future. An exercise in blissful ignorance. |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
"None":
wrote in message That's why I'm staying away from free sites because you don't know what CRAP is being packaged with those mp3s! My problem is solved - It's a combination of free mp3s and my Windows media player. I've already posted my solution; I'm staying safe! Just stay away from everything, that you obviously have no clue about. Thatīs safer for everybody - even those, who are not involved. My "collection" of MP3s is mainly from free legal sources, such as band websites and similar sources. Since 2000 I have not once experienced any of the problems, that you tried to describe - using various versions of Windows and WMP (thatīs Windows Media Player). So you don't really know what actually caused the problem, you don't really understand how it was solved, and you haven't a clue how to prevent it from happening in the future. An exercise in blissful ignorance. Just one more evidence, that brain usage and simple logic is too complicated for certain people... Nothing more, nothing less. So, PLEASE stop spamming this group! |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
On Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:49:14 AM UTC-4, Phil W wrote:
Just one more evidence, that brain usage and simple logic is too complicated for certain people... Nothing more, nothing less. So, thekmanmail.com PLEASE stop spamming this group! _____________ I PRAY, I sincerely do, that YOU have a unique problem that no one has ever heard of and someone says the exact words, above, that you wrote to me. Just so you know how it feels. You wouldn't know Spam if it fell off a truck and brained you! Amen! |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
UPDATE:
Well a week has gone by and the amount of "truncations" has decreased. One thing I still notice occasionally is that *something*(iTunes? Windows?) is changing the 'Year' tag on some of my songs! Year is a tag accessible by about any PC or Mac-based player, so I don't know at what point its being changed. I E: A song that came out in 1980 is suddenly 1979. Gen Formerly "Classic Rock" Now "Unknown"(as: empty field!) Hopefully these are just minor hauntings of those free mp3s. Otherwise, my collection seems relatively solid. Thanks to all who provided thoughtful tips and helpful advice - on here and in private! |
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Encoding MP3s to "self destruct": Does such a technique exist?
Was listening to a Tech Guys podcast this morning about
types of audio files. And they mentioned DRM and how it could be applied to *au and *m4a formats, among others. * In those cases, the DRM tag allowed the file to be played only so many times before it disappeared from the device. Then I got to thinking: *That some of the "mp3"s in my music collection(the ones that either became truncated or went missing) might not have been mp3s in the first place! * All someone likely did before uploading the file to Beemp3 or whatever free site was to save the file name with the filetype .mp3 on the end, even though it was NOT actually a mp3 format sound file. *It sure must have fooled my system! It's too late now to sort my collection by filetype(everything's either been run through mp3Val or the truncated files have been replaced), and I actually havent had a mp3 truncate or go mia since my last update to this thread. Incidentally: My harddrive and registry are in fine shape, and there is no malware on my PC. *So if anyone still wants to insist it is something wrong with the PC they are more than welcome to - but they might as well be talking to themselves in a mirror. * |
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