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Corrupted Mp3s

BeauJangles

BeauJangles

Lifer
I've never had this problem before, but now it seems like 1 out of every 15 of my songs is corrupted. This means that it either won't load onto my ipod (error -69) or it won't even play in Itunes.

I downloaded mp3 validator (mp3val) and it fixes some problems, but with other files it just hangs when I go to fix.

Are there any other solutions? Do I need to just repurchase / re-rip these songs? This is incredibly frustrating because I feel like every song I want on my ipod won't work.

Edit: I noticed this happening when I moved my music to my new laptop - could something (hardware / software) on the laptop be corrupting my music?
 
well your first mistake was not making backups
par2 your backups for even more security.
quickpar is a good gui interface for it

did you overclock? overclocking unlocked bus sometimes leads to silent drive corruption. maybe a dodgy usb drive, maybe fat32 corruption i dunno. yea yea mp3s can get corrupted, everyones heard the annoying glitch here and there. but it should be rare unless your hardware is really dodgy. unless you have par2 type parity files to rebuild/repair a file you are up the creek, the data is corrupted. you just have to rerip it. it has to be pretty messed up before an ipod will plain out reject it.

lame+eac is the best way, and well, now you'll have better version of lame mp3 encoder to use which is the upside of having to redo it😛 perhaps now you can use higher bitrate as well with drives being bigger if you were stingy with bitrate in the past.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well your first mistake was not making backups
par2 your backups for even more security.
quickpar is a good gui interface for it

did you overclock? overclocking unlocked bus sometimes leads to silent drive corruption. maybe a dodgy usb drive, maybe fat32 corruption i dunno. yea yea mp3s can get corrupted, everyones heard the annoying glitch here and there. but it should be rare unless your hardware is really dodgy. unless you have par2 type parity files to rebuild/repair a file you are up the creek, the data is corrupted. you just have to rerip it. it has to be pretty messed up before an ipod will plain out reject it.

lame+eac is the best way, and well, now you'll have better version of lame mp3 encoder to use which is the upside of having to redo it😛 perhaps now you can use higher bitrate as well with drives being bigger if you were stingy with bitrate in the past.
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I do have a partial backup, so I'll work from there. What worries me, though, is that these problems cropped up when I got my new laptop (HP DV9500). I've been having all sorts of problems with Itunes / Winamp crashing and freezing. I guess the corruption is probably related.
 
Just a quick update, if anybody was curious.

I've been using my laptop a lot, but today I took time to run a chkdsk on my music drive. Lo and behold Windows took about five hours to correct hundreds of bad clusters within my mp3s. Now everything works like a charm.

I'm still wondering what would have caused the corruption, but I'm happy my music works again.
 
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