I don't listen to the radio much, so every once in a while I go to Billboard.com and download some of the songs (via KaZaa) on the Top 40 to see if there's anything new out that I like. Well, after such a session I quickly went through deleting/ renaming/ playing the songs to see if any of it was good. Four of the songs, Cold - Stupid Girl, Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love, Monica - So Gone, and Three Doors Down - When I'm Gone, had these weird intermittent chunks where the audio would just like flip out and start to screech, hiccup, and so forth. Usually, it was about 30 seconds in and occurred seemingly at random throughout the rest of the song.
I tried to play these files with Winamp 2.91 and WMP 6.4. The results sounded generally the same (tho Winamp would sort of loop little 1 sec. sections over and over while WMP would just kinda screech and whine and go on).
So, what is it? Did a bunch of ppl just suddenly switch to crappier CD ripping apps? Insidious music-corrupting virus from the RIAA? Bizarre KaZaa downloading errors (the rest of the day's downloads, on and off KaZaa have been fine)? Gremlins in my hard drive? Has anyone else experienced this?
I tried to play these files with Winamp 2.91 and WMP 6.4. The results sounded generally the same (tho Winamp would sort of loop little 1 sec. sections over and over while WMP would just kinda screech and whine and go on).
So, what is it? Did a bunch of ppl just suddenly switch to crappier CD ripping apps? Insidious music-corrupting virus from the RIAA? Bizarre KaZaa downloading errors (the rest of the day's downloads, on and off KaZaa have been fine)? Gremlins in my hard drive? Has anyone else experienced this?
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