Corrupt mp3's problem

[bill]

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

 

[Billy]

Have you tried playing the mp3 files in a diffrerent program? Sounds
to me like your file system could be becoming corrupt.

I tried playing the song in winamp and windows media player. The same
result.
It's the mp3 file itself which is corrupt. I don't see how it could be the
file
system in my music program. If that was the case then using other programs
or
playing the same song would give different results at different times.
Someone must have created a mp3 song which eventually becomes corrupt
somehow.
But I can't see that corrupted mp3 (which I received from a friend and I
think he
got it from some torrent site) corrupting other healthy mp3's.
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. So it only
makes
sense that that song had another song underlying the original song which
later becomes
dominant.