MP3 Problem

enda1

Right,

I am totally stuck. I know mp3s get get viruses because they dont execute themselves but is it possible that some other virus has corrupted the files? I have had a load of mp3s on my computer for ages but just recently loads of them have stopped working. There is a bit of a pattern to it. It seems to be the last 3 or 4 songs from every album, though there are exceptions.

When i view the files themselves in explorer, the tag info seems to be gone for the ones that dont work.

They dont work with ipods, creative zen, iriver etc.

They dont work with winamp/itunes.

The file size is still large so I feel the info is still there (maybe some way of recovering it?).

Any ideas? Seriously I am at a loss.

Tea and biscuits for the winner!

Yeah I have googled this and cant find anything.

roamer

Have you tried running a virus scan?

Crave

if you recently transfered them they could have got corrupted in it. don't know of any way to repair them.

Irishpimpdude

if your playing in windows media player Right click the song when it turns orange and Click "Error Details" then post what it says here...

enda1

Error - "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."

No viruses either. Well there was one two days ago (the problem has been like this for about 2 weeks). It was a trojan. Ill try get the name from the logs.

enda1

C:\Documents and Settings\Enda\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javapi\v1.0\jar\javainstaller.jar-5aa0b436-347cf984.zip [KAV_S_R_INFECTED] [Trojan-Downloader.Java.OpenStream.w] SetAttr = 1


That is the line from my log of the trojan. Gonna check that out now......