Re: truncated mp3's ?

Giddyup,

This is indeed a strange problem, and it's screaming "corrupt mp3's!" to
me. What encoder did you use to encode them? Or were they from another
*cough cough* source? 

I would have originally said that VBR would be the problem, but all (bar
one) are CBR, so I'm guessing it's a slightly dodgy encoding job. Some
encoders out there aren't the greatest at producing hardware-compliant
MP3s, and I've had a few tracks that I've downloaded which have
completely locked up my iPod before. If they've been acquired from the
net, then I'm guessing that's your problem - see if you can get a
different mp3 of the tracks.

If you've ripped them yourself, then try re-ripping them again, and
possibly with a different encoder. Winamp is incredibly tolerable of
playing badly-encoded tracks, so that could explain why they work in
Winamp and not the iPod. 

Another thing to do maybe to give the iPod disk a good ol' defrag, and
maybe even let Chkdsk run over it - a few dodgy sectors or fragged files
*could* cause this behaviour, but seeing as you've re-copied them over a
few times and are still experiencing the problem, I'm leaning more
towards dodgy files.

Anyways, give those a burl and let me know if you have any luck.

Cheerios

[ Brendan ] | [e] [email protected] 
[p] 0402 993 798 [w] www.sektah.com



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