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Posted by GlowingBlueMist on April 18, 2008, 3:27 am
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>> 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.
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