Re: truncated mp3's ?

    This seems to be the problem. I re-ripped a couple of the offenders 
and reloaded the ipod. Seems to be working fine. Now to check the rest.
    Thanks for the tip,
          G.

[ brendan mckitrick ] wrote:

>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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