[John Williamson]

bill wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
bill wrote:
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.
It might help if you stated what operating system you're using and what
application you're using to play the things.

But rec.audio.pro isn't really the right place for this sort of thing.
--scott


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. 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.

In no particular order. Virus infection, trojan, rootkit, corrupted FAT,
corrupted playback program reading the info from the wrong bit of the
HD, or reading a file location as a URL if you're networked.

Other than that, no real ideas. I had a similar problem once after the
HD in my MP3 player went wrong during a sync session & the
synchronisation software went crazy.

It took a while to re-compress all the stuff off the original CDs. :-/

As Scott says, you might get better answers on one of the mp3 hardware
groups.

alt.music.mp3.hardware

Maybe.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.