Strange Sound, Screeching Songs...et Cetera

Ok I am no expert with Kazaa, but I know when something ain't quite honky dorrie, so have a quick glance at this screenshot I took while searching for Mr Bojangles of all things...

Clickity Click - ~200Kb

Now the song downloaded fine, but I have had trouble with other older songs...eg Moondance by Van Morrison, along with most modern songs.
But back to the picture, This is after clicking the + to view all of the users you can download the "same" file from. The green size column has 5 different file sizes. The blue quality column has 6 different bitrates. Finally the length of the song column has ~12 different lengths, ranging from 5:31, to 15:04. What the hell is the deal with this? These are obviously not the same file are they?

I had a look at some screechy songs in Nero Wave Editor, and the "screechiness" is only on the right channel....

So I am as stumped as the rest of you. My guess is that there is only a few users who have the fake screechy versions of the song and when you download with Kazaa, it uses more than one users and the screechy parts of the song are coming from 1 unreliable source, be it the RIAA or not, and not from all of the users.

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Originally posted by Mr. Sherman@1 October 2003 - 16:31
Dear potential/probable defendants,

I have three things to say here.

1. I see that there are almost 40 pages devoted to this subject of "Strange Sound, Screeching Songs...et Cetera". What a shame and what a waste of Cyberspace.

2. Do you want a solution to the problem? Do you want to know how to avoid the problem of Screechy Scratchy Sounding MP3s? Easy - STOP YOUR ILLEGAL PRACTICE OF DOWNLOADING AND SHARING MUSIC!

3. Would you like to know the source of these 'bad' files? Just have a look at my custom member title - that should shed some light on the subject.

Sincerely,

Mr. Sherman

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Who the fuck are you?

Do you realy believe if the Fasttrack network is invaded by fake files can stop filesharing?You are wrong,because that screeching songs are made by a human mind,not by a fucking robot or somekind of a science fiction machine,so every problem can be resolved,sooner or later someone find a solution and you and your screeching songs becomes past and this topic dissapear too.About STOP YOUR ILLEGAL PRACTICE OF DOWNLOADING AND SHARING MUSIC! do you know what is really ilegal?I don't think so,when the Matrix Reloaded is out on the web i find FTP'S with the movie and i shared those ftp's here in this forum,few minutes later i received for an hour 40 attacks with trojans,backdoors and other shit.Is this legal?,or is legal to sue a 12 years old girl?You and your fucking RIIA are really a bunch of idiots,trying to stop the filesharing with this methods.Sooner or later the America will get borred about RIIA ,if continue to put in trouble his own citizen.

Cheers Mr Sherman.[i hope you lost your job soon]

(if yall listen to John Boy and Billy in the mornings, you'll understand this)
FIRST TIME POST-ER!!!
MOOOOOOOOOOO

anyway, this is a great program you guys have running. my first question, however, has to be this...
do you see KaZaA going the way of Napster?
i'm not entirely sure as to the legitimacy of "Mr. Sherman" and his posturing, but it does tell of the way that the RIAA is going with their schpeel.

but to counter Sherman (can i call you Sherman? B) ) and his quote: "Do you want a solution to the problem? Do you want to know how to avoid the problem of Screechy Scratchy Sounding MP3s? Easy - STOP YOUR ILLEGAL PRACTICE OF DOWNLOADING AND SHARING MUSIC!"
if you make sharing music not illegal, than its not a crime, right? (duh)
seriously, though, if you're losing SOOOOO much money from us sharing songs, then you need to not hold a double standard. if an artist's songs are played on the radio, they're there for everyone who's lived in the past 100 or so to listen to. nobody's trying to sue the radio companies. hell, we're not playing these songs for any one with a car, boombox, or just a walkman (copyright sony, or something :P ) to hear. for the most part, we play them for ourselves, on our headphones, at 130 in the morning, while writing mini diatribes to no one in particular. we are, in escence, boycotting your CD's due to the outrageous prices you place on them. 15 years ago, it was a great buy to find Billy Joel, or whoever, selling for $20 a pop. these prices haven't gone down since. 15 years ago, the asking price for a computer was almost 5 times as high as today. a decent stereo might run you $500 or more. the only items (that i can think of at 140 in the morning) that are still equally priced as their not-so-ancient ancestors are CD's and household furniture and appliances. and that doesn't apply to all of the latter. the RIAA needs to rethink it's strategy before it goes around sueing every broke college student and on-medicaid grandparent for every nickel they can get their grubby little hands on. go talk to the CD producers, the one's who stick the price on the CD box. not the one's who don't go to the CD section of the Electronic Dept. at wal-mart because they can't even fathom paying so much for one d@mn song on a little plastic disc.

i realized about halfway through that i was rambling, but it didn't help any...too much coffee :blink:

now post-away all defenders of sharing
and all you ppl who're like Mr. Sherman (the real one), i would like to say i'm sorry for the bullies in your youth who caused you to sit in the sandbox and hog all the cool shovels and stuff. i'm sure that they didn't realize that you'd comeback one day to sue their kids for the 20 bucks that they had stashed in their socks.

any complaints, email me at [email protected]

YEA!!!
MY SECOND POST!!
:D
lol, anywho, i just wanted to say that while i was typing that, i was listening to shared music.
and downloading more...

good psot for a first poost noob

I didn't bother going through the 30 pages on this topic.

but from my opinion, there is definitely no virus planted by the RIAA or anyone to screw up the mp3s on your hard-drive.

it's pre-injected. there's a group of ppl, could be the RIAA, who are very efficient in screwing up all the new released and popular music tracks before they spread throughout the network.

and i kinda realised it's only happening to english tracks, popular mp3 files being spread around in America, UK or whatever.

I downloaded an entire mandarin album, a fairly new and popular album that sold platinum under 1-2weeks.

downloaded every track from kazaa and there tracks were all fine...

i knida realised that the RIAA (if it's them) that are only operating in countries downloading english mp3s...

it's sas though

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Originally posted by cscwcu@3 October 2003 - 06:48
(if yall listen to John Boy and Billy in the mornings, you'll understand this)
FIRST TIME POST-ER!!!
MOOOOOOOOOOO

anyway, this is a great program you guys have running. my first question, however, has to be this...
do you see KaZaA going the way of Napster?
i'm not entirely sure as to the legitimacy of "Mr. Sherman" and his posturing, but it does tell of the way that the RIAA is going with their schpeel.

but to counter Sherman (can i call you Sherman? B) ) and his quote: "Do you want a solution to the problem? Do you want to know how to avoid the problem of Screechy Scratchy Sounding MP3s? Easy - STOP YOUR ILLEGAL PRACTICE OF DOWNLOADING AND SHARING MUSIC!"
if you make sharing music not illegal, than its not a crime, right? (duh)
seriously, though, if you're losing SOOOOO much money from us sharing songs, then you need to not hold a double standard. if an artist's songs are played on the radio, they're there for everyone who's lived in the past 100 or so to listen to. nobody's trying to sue the radio companies. hell, we're not playing these songs for any one with a car, boombox, or just a walkman (copyright sony, or something :P ) to hear. for the most part, we play them for ourselves, on our headphones, at 130 in the morning, while writing mini diatribes to no one in particular. we are, in escence, boycotting your CD's due to the outrageous prices you place on them. 15 years ago, it was a great buy to find Billy Joel, or whoever, selling for $20 a pop. these prices haven't gone down since. 15 years ago, the asking price for a computer was almost 5 times as high as today. a decent stereo might run you $500 or more. the only items (that i can think of at 140 in the morning) that are still equally priced as their not-so-ancient ancestors are CD's and household furniture and appliances. and that doesn't apply to all of the latter. the RIAA needs to rethink it's strategy before it goes around sueing every broke college student and on-medicaid grandparent for every nickel they can get their grubby little hands on. go talk to the CD producers, the one's who stick the price on the CD box. not the one's who don't go to the CD section of the Electronic Dept. at wal-mart because they can't even fathom paying so much for one d@mn song on a little plastic disc.

i realized about halfway through that i was rambling, but it didn't help any...too much coffee :blink:

now post-away all defenders of sharing
and all you ppl who're like Mr. Sherman (the real one), i would like to say i'm sorry for the bullies in your youth who caused you to sit in the sandbox and hog all the cool shovels and stuff. i'm sure that they didn't realize that you'd comeback one day to sue their kids for the 20 bucks that they had stashed in their socks.

any complaints, email me at [email protected]

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you think radio stations play music over the airwaves for free?
that is the stupidest thing I have heard! you don't think they pay any large amounts of money to broadcast to the public copyrighted music.
you sir, are an idiot

if you make sharing music not illegal, than its not a crime, right? (duh)
sharing music may not be illegal, but copyright infringment is, and they are nothing the same.

ye radio stations have to be licenced

I have had exactly the same problem, & I'm using every known anti virus/firewall known to man. A friend of mine has also been telling me of the same problem.
I think that someone somewhere is causing this deliberately, maybee RIAA or just some tosser(s) who think that kind of thing is funny. :angry:
I have had so many downloads stopped by my antivirus software recently coz they had worms, it's getting more difficult to find decent software out there.
I have used WinMX to download these same files I had problems with on Kazaa & got clean MP3's with no distortion, so I think someone is targetting Kazaa.

So I broswed the first 15 pages of this thread. Couldn't find a definat solution to the problem. I'm guessing there isn't one?