MP3s going corrupt

Happy · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:24

Every now and then, I find an album that has corrupted MP3s in, is there anyway to prevent them corrupting. They are stored on their own drive, and generally haven't been moved around since they were ripped from CD.

Next question, I have a master backup on one PC with to my knowledge no currupted MP3s, however whenever I copy them to another PC they are corrupt when I next use them. It's the same albums too, they are fine on one PC, but won't last on another :confused:

Any help is greatly appreciated

Skeeter · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:26

Is it always the same file in the same place, or just random?

Random may suggest a RAM problem more than a HDD/file problem.

Happy · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:31

As an example:

I copied a album from the Master backup (the copy on here is fine) to an external drive, and to another PC, and both have had MP3s go corrupt. This has happened in other instances too

Is there a good way to try and minimize the risk of data corruption?

Other than this issue, the PC is fine, so I no hardware issues etc.

SimonC · 24 Oct 2008 at 00:16

You'll laugh at me for this.

But when you unplug the usb drive are you clicking 'safely remove device'?

SexyGreyFox · 24 Oct 2008 at 08:10

Many years I started a similar thread on here and it ended up being my very cheap EIDE cables.
Most people have SATA now but its worth replacing and trying.

hp7909 · 24 Oct 2008 at 08:15

Happy said:
to an external drive

Tried copying to another type of drive/disk & see if still corrupt? Oh, & when you copy onto said e.drive does it playback fine from it?

Just trying to rule out the ext drive as culprit

bledd · 24 Oct 2008 at 09:41

echoing dmpoole's suggestion, try other cables..

Happy · 24 Oct 2008 at 16:13

SimonC said:
You'll laugh at me for this.
But when you unplug the usb drive are you clicking 'safely remove device'?

Yeah I do this

dmpoole said:
Many years I started a similar thread on here and it ended up being my very cheap EIDE cables.
Most people have SATA now but its worth replacing and trying.

The drive is IDE, I have swapped the cable so will have to see if this stops any future issues.

hp7909 said:
Tried copying to another type of drive/disk & see if still corrupt? Oh, & when you copy onto said e.drive does it playback fine from it?

Just trying to rule out the ext drive as culprit

The drive is fine I believe, as there is other media on there which has always been fine :confused:

Cheers for the help

Guess I'll just re rip the couple of albums, and hope they aren't as crap thsi time

IAmATeaf · 24 Oct 2008 at 17:01

The only time I've had something similar happen is when MP3 tagging software goes bad, which left a few albums unplayable after something went wrong with the prog.

Happy · 24 Oct 2008 at 19:10

IAmATeaf said:
The only time I've had something similar happen is when MP3 tagging software goes bad, which left a few albums unplayable after something went wrong with the prog.

Interesting thanks