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Mp3s sound bad on my Zen Micro

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Kitrax

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Ok, so I just got a Creative Zen Micro Mp3 player and once I transferred all my music to it, I noticed that almost all of my songs have clicks in them...it almost seems like the speakers are blown. I mainly hear it in the left channel, so I thought it might be my headphones, so I returned them for a different brand. So now I have a $40 pair of Sony ear buds and I can still hear it! It's driving me crazy!

All songs were ripped from CDs at no less than 128kbps...which I was told was "CD quallity"...could that be the problem? Do I need to re-rip all my music at something like 196kbps or higher? Or is there some program out there that can clean the clicking out of my music?
 
I agree. Play the files on your PC to see if they have the same clicks. If so, then the files are encoded badly and you'll need to re-create them. If they all have the same clicking, there is probably something wrong with the way your computer is encoding the files that could require additional troubleshooting, particularly if you get the same thing when you rip them again...

If they sound fine on your PC, then the MP3 player itself likely has a problem.
 
Rip your cds with a free program called exact audio copy http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
It's better than virtually any software you can buy because it doesn't rely on your cd reader for error correction it detects and recovers most errors by reading questionable sectors multiple times. In the event that it cannot ensure a perfect rip it allows you preview each of the areas that had trouble so you can tell if there is a click or glitch and it can be dealt with.
 
Thanks guys.

I decided to test things out. So I decided on three songs on my Mp3 player that had the most "clicks" in them, and I re-ripped those songs at 192kbps, with a new program I just downloaded called 'CDex'. Then I copied the three songs over and listened to them with the volume almost too loud fro my ears - I couldn't hear a single click during any of the three songs.

So that's it, I need to re-rip all my music...which for about 25% of my songs will be impossible. So I have a new question:

Does anyone know of a program that can re-encode a Mp3 file at a higher bit-rate without needing the original CD?
 
Re-encoding at a higher bitrate will only increase the size of the file. The lower bitrate was not responsible for the clicks... it was your encoder. The reason lower bitrate encoding is of poorer quality is because more information has to be discarded to achieve lower bitrates. Re-encoding at a higher rate cannot recover the information that has been lost.
 
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