Windows Media Player 9 corrupting MP3s?
Man, I can't believe I just found out about this. Like a month ago, I was playing my MP3 collection on someone else's computer and it only had Windows Media Player 9. However, I just found out that the blasted program corrupted a lot of my MP3s (the ones that were actually played). By corrupted, I mean that the SFVs are showing that they were changed. I was looking at some and it seems that some MP3s that originally only had ID3v2 tags now have ID3v1 tags too! This really sucks, considering that a lot of those were from really rare and hard to get group releases.
Anyway, what I want to know is if there's any way to restore those MP3s and if this kind of problem with WMP9 had ever happened before. Thanks. |
Nothing was corrupted. And ID3v1 tags are easily removable.
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SFV errors show up any change that happened to a file, even something like if you change the tag by one character in an mp3. SFV doesn't make any difference if its just a tag or the whole mp3 being screwed; it shows if a change was done or is the file still the same.
Chances are that WMP rewrote your tags (big fucking deal) during one of its automatical info query crap, I guess, nobody uses that bloated piece of shit so I can't tell for sure. If you are absolutely paranoid you can try redownloading your old copy into a different folder, and then do a foobar bitcompare between the modified and the original file. But thats way too unlikely that wmp modified anything but the tags. |
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