How do mp3s become corrupt

Also, whenver I load them through media programs, they are just recognized as blank names with their file size, they should be loaded like every other song displaying whatever the song name is and song length. If anyone could look into this, that would be awesome, it's driving me crazy trying to figure out why they are just bad files.

Or a quicker solution for anyone helping would be if you knew of anyway to uncorrupt an MP3 file, or if that's possible. I've googled it but don't exactly trust the websites offering so called "MP3 Repair Tools".

Posted 07 June - PM. Could this be some form of digital rights protection? In other words you can play it on what you download it to, but not transfer it to another medium.

One way to test this would be to copy a couple of these MP3s onto a memory stick and see if you can get them to play on another computer or transfer them to someone else's ipod. That would also eliminate the question of a problem with your ipod. I could think of some ways around this problem, but that would get me into trouble with the moderators and I like this site!

Dat Piff hosts "free" mixtapes so I don't think that they would use digital rights protection, it's all free and if they say "Official", they are uploaded directly from the artist.

And I honestly don't think it's my iPod because I have problems with the same files after loading them into media programs too. Community Forum Software by IP. Select the checkbox next to the files to repair. For the number of frames to process, start with 1 , then select Repair. Was this page helpful?

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