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Corrupted MP3 files with bits of other songs

I have this very weird thing happening to me. I recently went on and changed all the tags on about 250GB of MP3 albums and now when I play them, I sometimes get bits of other unrelated songs (band names are always close in the folder hierarchy) for a second or two. Unfortunately, my last 2 backups were made after I realised the corruption. Some files were moved but some were not... I used MP3Tag and Windows 7 64bits Pro. This is very frustrating and a big waste of 15 years of MP3 collecting, some that I might never get back.

I tried a couple of MP3 correcting programs but nothing worked. I checked on Google and found a couple of people having the exact same issue.

I will come back to this forum every now and then in the hope of someone finding a way to fix this horrible issue.

Thank you for your valuable input.

Bottom line, keep your CDs and keep buying them!

EDIT : To give you an exemple, I once played in a band called Wicked Star. I digitized all of my band CDs to 320kbps and using MP3Tag I put the right titles, band name, track number and cover art. Then I moved the folders to my "Albums" main folder but not at the same time (some were already there for years). Let's say I play the track #5 of the album Wicked Star 2013, I get somewhere midway into the song then I get a few seconds from track #3 of the album Wicked Star 2004. I work in the computer business and it is very unusual.

Corrupted MP3 files with bits of other songs

Reply #1
You will have to rerip the files from CD.  This is not the kind of thing that software can correct.

Corrupted MP3 files with bits of other songs

Reply #2
I checked on Google and found a couple of people having the exact same issue.
Can you link to those?

I regularly run my whole collection through mp3tag and haven't seen this (yet!).

David.


Corrupted MP3 files with bits of other songs

Reply #3
I have found a solution! I tried it on one file and it worked. The program is called MP3 Diags : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3diags/

It said my file had multiple streams and multiple errors. I went on a applied some corrections and the added bits were gone.

If it fails on all the other songs I will report back but this unknown program could help a lot of people around.

Thank you for your input guys.

Corrupted MP3 files with bits of other songs

Reply #4
I had a similar problem once (with WAV files).  It was a hard drive problem.  Luckily, I was using a separate drive for audio/video files so nothing else on my system was corrupted.

You might want to look for a computer diagnostics program that can can thoroughly exercise & test your hard drive, or do what I did and just replace the drive.

Like I said, in this case I just replaced the drive without diagnostics/troubleshooting.  But a long time ago, I used a diagnostic tool called TuffTEST.  It's very affordable.  There's a free version but it has limitations, including only testing small hard drives.

Corrupted MP3 files with bits of other songs

Reply #5
It does sound to me like a drive problem.There's no way mp3tag or similar could do this on their own. If you've had drive errors and there have been errors corrected it's a possibility that the file table being fixed meant it pointed at other bits of files.

Run a full disc scan with check disk as soon as possible.