Help! need tips to fix, broken mp3's

[PSYBER BOY]

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Hi everyone, im from Mexico, so sorry if my english its not too well, i'll do
my best trying to explain my problem.

I had a USB Hard drive case, and i mounted a WD 80GB HD, which i use to play
all my music in parties and dj stuff like that. About 1 month before, some
moron pull the AC cable, and the Hard drive fall into the floor. I had no
time to chek it out, until the next day. I think some of you are now thinking
what happend next.

Windows recognizes the Hard Drive, Explorer shows the content, but when i
start play the files, comes up a error messsage saying that the adress of
the file its wrong and bla bla bla. Some files play others dont, then
everything goes wrong, PC freezes and the "clack of dead" start to appear,
hard drive pass away to other life, and 80GB of my best non backed up music
goes to shi*t.

I had that music in other HDD, which already repartitioned, formated and
used for other purpose, i mounted in my Desktop PC, use ONTARCK Easy recovery
to search for old files, and sucefully recover some of the songs.

The problem its that some files mark an error, saying that the extension
its not the same of the original file (WMP 11 message), media player clasicc,
says that the time code its no valid, so after all the chat'a chat'a chin
chin.

Can someome tell me, how do i fix my broken Mp3 files?
Or fix my other HDD?
Or find a better software to restore my deleted music?

Please help!!!

 

[Don Phillipson]

. i mounted in my Desktop PC, use ONTARCK Easy recovery
to search for old files, and sucefully recover some of the songs.

The problem its that some files mark an error, saying that the extension
its not the same of the original file (WMP 11 message), media player clasicc,
says that the time code its no valid, so after all the chat'a chat'a chin
chin.

On the intact hard drive, your MP3 files should be OK.
Your problems appear to be with WMP configuration,
playlists and so on. You can test every file by playing
it individually in any other audio player (e.g. RealPlay.)

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

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Hi everyone, im from Mexico, so sorry if my english its
not too well, i'll do my best trying to explain my
problem.

I had a USB Hard drive case, and i mounted a WD 80GB HD,
which i use to play all my music in parties and dj stuff
like that. About 1 month before, some moron pull the AC
cable, and the Hard drive fall into the floor. I had no
time to chek it out, until the next day. I think some of
you are now thinking what happend next.

Windows recognizes the Hard Drive, Explorer shows the
content, but when i start play the files, comes up a error
messsage saying that the adress of the file its wrong and
bla bla bla. Some files play others dont, then everything
goes wrong, PC freezes and the "clack of dead" start to
appear, hard drive pass away to other life, and 80GB of my
best non backed up music goes to shi*t.

Well don't you have the *original* CD's from where you
ripped the mp3's?

Or what does the law say in Mexico? You can play music even
if you just sucked it off somewhere (good ole Napster comes
to my mind) like the Internet?

What about the rights of the *artists*? In some countries
they get royalties even if a DJ plays them in a public
setting.

But seriously I hope you will invest in some good *back-up*
HDD to keep *more* then one set of this *data*. 80GM of
music in mp3 this means a lot of playing-time.

Please help!!!

Dragomir Kollaric[/QUOTE]

 

[PSYBER BOY]

Thanks Don, i'll already open the single file whit many players, and obtain
the same result. Even whit 3rd party software that claim reproduce all you
can trow in. So i really think that the problem its more in phisyc and logic
loose of data than in single player configuration. But thanks for the info.
By the way, do you now some program that repair my restored mp3 files, some
kind of tool taht let me read in raw or something. Any info aprecciated. And
thanks for your time.

 

[PSYBER BOY]

So like Jesus Christ say along time: the one who its free of sin, throw the
first stone.
, sorry just a bad joke, and i have to say.

The thing here its the genere of music i play (psychedelic trance, GOA
trance, Fullon Trance) "and buy" its not so popular and accesible here, in
Mexico music stores. Import one single CD cost me about $75 dollars. Via
Internet, from pages like Psyshop and others, and the files or albums
downladed right to my drive for 99% less cost, i really had to choose this
option. By the way i BUY those files, i can't redownload again, its gonna
cost a lot of money.

So "Dragomir Kollaric", if you have some handfull info, that helps fix my
problem, i really go to apreciete that.

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

So like Jesus Christ say along time: the one who its free
of sin, throw the first stone. , sorry just a bad joke,
and i have to say.

The thing here its the genere of music i play (psychedelic
trance, GOA trance, Fullon Trance) "and buy" its not so
popular and accesible here, in Mexico music stores. Import
one single CD cost me about $75 dollars. Via Internet,
from pages like Psyshop and others, and the files or
albums downladed right to my drive for 99% less cost, i
really had to choose this option. By the way i BUY those
files, i can't redownload again, its gonna cost a lot of
money.

So "Dragomir Kollaric", if you have some handfull info,
that helps fix my problem, i really go to apreciete that.

Only bad If the platters in the discs are damaged the
data could not be read any longer. I've had a CD-ROM that
went bad, (had copies of the data) and was unable to read
parts of it.

If it helps today I feel a bit more sorry for you.

But storing the *only* data (data without back-up) on a
portable medium like a USB-Drive, boy I must say this is
more then reckless. But I guess by now you reached that
conclusion on your own.



Dragomir Kollaric[/QUOTE]

 

[beamish]

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Hi everyone, im from Mexico, so sorry if my english its not too well, i'll do
my best trying to explain my problem.

I had a USB Hard drive case, and i mounted a WD 80GB HD, which i use to play
all my music in parties and dj stuff like that. About 1 month before, some
moron pull the AC cable, and the Hard drive fall into the floor. I had no
time to chek it out, until the next day. I think some of you are now thinking
what happend next.

Windows recognizes the Hard Drive, Explorer shows the content, but when i
start play the files, comes up a error messsage saying that the adress of
the file its wrong and bla bla bla. Some files play others dont, then
everything goes wrong, PC freezes and the "clack of dead" start to appear,
hard drive pass away to other life, and 80GB of my best non backed up music
goes to shi*t.

I had that music in other HDD, which already repartitioned, formated and
used for other purpose, i mounted in my Desktop PC, use ONTARCK Easy recovery
to search for old files, and sucefully recover some of the songs.

The problem its that some files mark an error, saying that the extension
its not the same of the original file (WMP 11 message), media player clasicc,
says that the time code its no valid, so after all the chat'a chat'a chin
chin.

Can someome tell me, how do i fix my broken Mp3 files?
Or fix my other HDD?
Or find a better software to restore my deleted music?

Please help!!!

Hello,
Little late, hope you are reading late additions.
This is a old site but the information is good. and the links are working.
Knoppix bootable cd may be of some use in recovering your music.
Read the information, download a Knoppix iso file, burn to disc as a iso file
using a program that handle iso files. Free program from
http://www.protectedsoft.com/index.php
The free burner program is listed and all that is needed.
Make sure your computer is set in the bios for CD as the first drive.
Hope you can recover your files.
http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

take care.
beamish.

 

[Jason]

Royalties playing in public - I see CD's state can not be played for public
use - to contact publisher.

 

[Jason]

People did that with floppies thinking it was safer on the floppy - actually
easier damaged medium than on the hard drive. My motto: Save on hard drive -
backup to at lease two different destinations (alternate DVD's, alternate
removable drives etc)

 

[Jason]

So no backup - even on your own PC? Sounds like the files have been damaged.
Try chkdsk /r. But even then the files are lost.

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

People did that with floppies thinking it was safer on the
floppy - actually easier damaged medium than on the hard
drive. My motto: Save on hard drive - backup to at lease
two different destinations (alternate DVD's, alternate
removable drives etc)

I remember these days. I've installed a Software under Win98
and it was on 28 floppies. Guess what? #25 was broken, so I
couldn't install it, send it back got me an replacement,
installed it and then made the backup. Later luckily I got
the same software as tool on a CD-ROM and used that instead
whenever I needed.



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Dragomir Kollaric[/QUOTE]

 

[limon]

he thing here its the genere of music i play (psychedelic
trance, GOA trance, Fullon Trance) "and buy" its not so
popular and accesible here, in Mexico music stores. Import
one single CD cost me about $75 dollars. Via Internet,
from pages like Psyshop and others, and the files or
albums downladed right to my drive for 99% less cost, i
really had to choose this option. By the way i BUY those
files, i can't redownload again, its gonna cost a lot of
money

 

[Bob I]

he thing here its the genere of music i play (psychedelic
trance, GOA trance, Fullon Trance) "and buy" its not so
popular and accesible here, in Mexico music stores. Import
one single CD cost me about $75 dollars. Via Internet,
from pages like Psyshop and others, and the files or
albums downladed right to my drive for 99% less cost, i
really had to choose this option. By the way i BUY those
files, i can't redownload again, its gonna cost a lot of
money.

This means you have not made any backup at all?!?!?

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

This means you have not made any backup at all?!?!?

This is the message I'm getting too.

I'm bad at math but I can gather that there would be room
for a lot of *mp3 files on a 80 GB HDD. And all that kept on
a portable storage unit.

He said that he used to have the files on another HDD, but
after moving/copying them to the USB, he used the other HDD
for something else.

Now if these *mp3 are that valuable would a professional
date-recovery firm be of any help at all? I understand they
would charge him an arm and a leg for their service....





Dragomir Kollaric[/QUOTE]