[Richard Crowley]

"Scott Dorsey" wrote ...
Laurence Payne wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

My first suspicion would be a bug in your mp3 player application that
is
damaging files. And once they get damaged, they stay that way. They
might be getting damaged at one point in time, months before you next
play them and notice it.

An interesting idea. Do player applications even have the ability to
write data?

The Windows Media Player I have no idea about. But applications like
iTunes
that maintain directories of mp3 files and do all of this fancy file
management stuff with moving files around all the time certainly do.
That
strikes me as an accident waiting to happen, personally.

Of course, you can set all your MP3 files for Read-Only
to eliminate that potential cause.

Any application has the potential of overwriting an
existing file. Most don't do it intentionally.