Improperly turned off computer

[Kvin]

Improperly turned off computer: at shutdown, windows media player was not
closed and played mp3.
Possible grave consequences? Mp3 damaging, WMP damaging?

 

[R. McCarty]

Depends on which version of Media Player. It can and does on
occasion truncate media files. I've had numerous tracks become
corrupted where total playing time is shortened. Only way to tell
is use a Tag editor and import your list and sort by song length
( Shortest - to - Longest ).
If you find Zero time or very short duration tracks they've likely
been altered.

One thing to do is keep a "Master" of your library and use a copy
for day-to-day use. Last time I checked my current/active collection
I had 4 "Self-Edited" tracks. I only use MPlayer and Adobe
Audition, so I suspect it's Media Player doing the truncation.

I'm hoping that Media Player 11 doesn't exhibit this behavior.

 

[Kvin]

Depends on which version of Media Player. It can and does on
occasion truncate media files. I've had numerous tracks become
corrupted where total playing time is shortened. Only way to tell
is use a Tag editor and import your list and sort by song length
( Shortest - to - Longest ).
If you find Zero time or very short duration tracks they've likely
been altered.

One thing to do is keep a "Master" of your library and use a copy
for day-to-day use. Last time I checked my current/active collection
I had 4 "Self-Edited" tracks. I only use MPlayer and Adobe
Audition, so I suspect it's Media Player doing the truncation.

I'm hoping that Media Player 11 doesn't exhibit this behavior.

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I have WMP 10.0

Kvin