Album Wrap problem

[Mr. Crowley]

I downloaded a full album (18 mp3's) and all but 3 will play on WMP. With those 3, I get the error message: "No Combination of filters could be found to render the steam". However, all 18 files will play on both Coolplayer, and Winamp. Does anyone know what could cause this? I cannot understand why 15 files will play on WMP and 3 will not. I assume they were all ripped from the same CD. By the ID tag, I know they were all encoded using Fraunhofer. Any Ideas?

[isus]

is this wmp's way of telling you that those mp3's are copyrighted?

check in winamp's "mpeg info" box (dbl clck on the scrolling title in the winamp main window)

[Rickio]

Well I have experienced what is happening to you before. It seems winamp and coolplayer are very forgiving of missing frames or corrupt mp3's. But other media players are not so forgegiving.
If it really bothers you, one thing you can do is re-encode the files and it should be fine then. At least is has worked for me.

you can re-encode with cdex of eac both freeware.

[mrgone4662]

or you can buy the cd you cheap bastard


(kidding :fire )

[Mr. Crowley]

Yep, corrupt files was the culprit. I checked them with MP3Utility, and all 3 had a truncated last audio frame. One also had sync errors in the last 1% of the file. Is there a simple way to repair this without re-encoding. I do not have the Fraunhofer encoder, and I believe that re-encoding with a different encoder will cause a loss in quality since they would use a different algorithm. Is this not correct? I use dBpowerAMP with LAME by the way.

Oh, and mrgone, I did buy the CD. I have simply misplaced it. That's all. I'm just trying to replace what is rightfully mine. Yeah, that's the ticket. hahahaha

[Rickio]

Re-encoding is not as bad as some say. You can always hear for yourself and decide. The new lame.dll is so good, you will likely not hear a differance.

Use eac or cdex, they are freeware and cdex comes complete with the freeware lame.dll.

You can re-encode at the highest quality and I am certain you will find it just fine.

. You can also use mp3trim (freeware) to cut off the last bad frames. It works great!

all apps are easily found with a yahoo search.

[Foreverboard]

I agree, if you re-encode with EAC and use the "best" encode you should not hear a difference.