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.

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.

Yeah, I just checked more of them, and that's what it seems like. Man this sux. There goes all that time that I spent trying to get SFV correct releases... :(