Corrupt mp3's problem
"bill" wrote in message
This has been happening to me for over a year. I thought
it might be a virus, but my virus scan finds nothing.
Most viruses are interested in spawning more copies of themselves on other
computers than anything else.
I deleted the corrupted mp3 files and then many months
later some new downloaded files (which were scanned virus
free) become corrupted.
How do you know that they weren't corrupted all along?
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).
There is no free lunch.
I read somewhere that changing the properties of the mp3 file to
"read me only" might help.
If you mark files read/only you may head off some problems, but not others.
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.
Ever hear of backup to removable media?
Some of these files
might be infected when downloaded
You mean you don't test them right away?
Sounds like we're talking free downloads of copyrighted music. :-(
Why not just title your post "Help me steal"?
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