Re: MP3 not synced

Hmmmm, sounds like it's not the song-skipping problem then. As another
side note to the song-skipping issue, someone suggested keeping the
iPod's hard drive below 98% capacity, and I've also found this can help.

But yes, corrupt file it sounds like (nice Yoda-speak there). Is the MP3
ultra-ultra rare? You might have a chance of finding it floating around
on Shareaza if you're lucky, not that I'd ever suggest using that sort
of thing (*cough cough*).

As for doing the convert, that would probably work, although you will
lose quality. To convert it from MP3 to WAV, you can use something like
Winamp to do this without a problem - Winamp has a built-in Diskwriter
output plugin, which works a treat these days. You can find it in Winamp
2.x under Preferences > Output, then select the "Nullsoft Disk Writer"
plug in. You can click the configure button to tell it where you'd like
it stored on your hard drive.

To convert it back to MP3, you can use a proggy such as WinLame, which
is a front-end for the Lame MP3 codec. 
http://winlame.sourceforge.net/download.php

But in this case, I'd actually suggest converting it to a high quality
AAC/MP4 file - that way, quality loss will be minimal, and you can have
a nice as-close-to-original-mp3 copy as possible. A lovely program to do
this is Ivan&Menno, which can convert your WAV file to an MP4 file.
You'll need to download the Psytel or FAAC encoder to use with it. The
two links are:

Ivan&Menno
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/ivan&menno.htm

AAC encoders
http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/aac.html

I recommend the Psytel AAC Encoder - about 2/3 down the page.

And that *should* be about it. If you need any further directions in
using it, just give me a yell off-list and I'll be happy to help.

Cheers

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


> -----Original Message-----
> When I press back, it goes back to the buggy song then skips 
> right back
> to the song after it.
> It skips the same song when I browse into the artist/album as well as
> when I load it from the playlist.
> Preserve file names is off, defrag? I'll give that a shot. 
> 
> If that doesn't work, then as Brendan suggested, it might be a corrupt
> file. I tried deleting it off the iPod and manually syncing just that
> song, but got the same effect.
> This is a "rare" MP3 so no luck in getting another copy of this track,
> so I guess trying to decompress into .WAV and recompress back into
> 192kbps MP3 might be in order. Any recommended programs?
> 



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