Strange Sound, Screeching Songs...et Cetera

[Advantix]

Yea the stupid screeching noise is so gay.....

[Jayhawk]

did u steal Paul's avatar? tisk tisk tisk


i kinda like the sreeching its gotta sorta ring to it...

[nicelydone101]

Just a note here, This may have been talked about already but I don't get on the forum very often at all...but I have too recently downloaded an mp3 with the Infamous screeching noise. I do not know alot about mp3's and whats makes them chime, but i chose to open a screeching mp3 with notepad, and found the characters:
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 &#33;"##&#036;%&()**,,-.00234466899:;<=>?@ABCDEGGIIKLLMOPPRSSUVVWYZZ&#092;]^^``bbd

in the file repeated a few hundred times this exact string of characters is in every single bad mp3 with the screeching noise. Im guessing that this screeching noise can be created with something as simple as notepad. However the good parts of the mp3 looked like:
2RDº2j‡‰4ucÙ mô§¤ÿKÑm÷ʈٹ¤ñpøξnýhÑÌé–neVuJ/Û&#092;‘»=PóÛ_ü,Ïû¶,›*ô�—ŒgMî(

With no repetative string of characters, correct me if I am wrong but isnt purposly altering copywritten material illegal also? LOL

[fbh]

my simple solution:use winmx...i havent downloaded a single bad mp3 file since i switched over...coincidence, maybe...but i like winmx better anyway.

[ginNTonic]

Hi,

Just wondering what the consensus was on the cause of a lot of recently released songs being rendered unplayable due to annoying screeching and scratching noises. Are these bad tracks planted by the RIAA to confound us, or the result of new copy-protection techniques that turn an ordinary CD into an unplayable MP3?

My thinking is that its the former -- a large effort by the RIAA to plant bogus tracks to make file-sharing more tedious and thus discourage users. Many tracks I&#39;ve heard are nothing more than a &#39;mix&#39; of all the tracks on the CD, certainly not something a &#39;copy-protection&#39; algorithm on the CD could do, and is most likely a planted track.

Is there any way for Kazaa developers to filter these traks out? How can one tell (before downloading), whether a track is real?

Cheers.

[3rd gen noob]

http://www.klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=49358

[wormless]

read the pinned msg bout screeching or try the :rtfaq:

[Mr. Sherman]

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&#33;

3. Would you like to know the source of these &#39;bad&#39; 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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Thanks Mr. Sherman



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[wolfdogg]

Mr. Sherman,
You are a funny dude. You&#39;re sure trying hard.. I&#39;ll give you that.

Everyone else,

How are they flooding the network with these songs.. that is the question? I&#39;ve been following this post for a while.. First off... those of you suggesting new codecs or downloading Kazaa/Lite again.... or that the RIAA has somehow magically planted a virus on your computer... go back to your room and keep smoking whatever it is that&#39;s been getting you through your day.

Now.. do I think it&#39;s the RIAA? Absolutely. I&#39;m pretty impressed too. I&#39;m a software developer.. and I&#39;ve been trying to go over it all in my head (if I could just make those little voices be quiet for a few minutes) and I really don&#39;t see how they could have done this. It&#39;s not just releasing all these titles with screeches and loops.. but they&#39;ve managed to block almost all of the real titles. There are a few that seem to get by.. but it&#39;s difficult to find a whole album for sure.
Yes.. it could be some sort of new software on the CDs that make the songs go bad after a few "copy&#39;s", but even the logic of that doesn&#39;t stand up. There should still be just as many good copies available. I went back and downloaded songs that I have downloaded before that had no problems.. songs that I could have easily found a hundred copies for, and in some cases, I can&#39;t find a single good one now.
Still... some people have found a way to release good ones. A good example.. do a search for &#39;Saliva Rest in Pieces&#39; or any song off that album (Back Into Your System) and there&#39;s hardly a good song to be found. Now.. I noticed that someone put the keyword &#39;Butt Ownage&#39; in for a metatag on a whole CD they burned. If you do a search for &#39;Saliva Butt Ownage&#39;, you can find every song on that CD.. and a good copy.

So.. kudos to the RIAA or whoever did this. I do have to agree with the earlier post by nicelydone101, who stated
"...correct me if I am wrong but isnt purposly altering copywritten material illegal also? LOL"
But then... maybe that&#39;s why this whole thing is so hush-hush. Maybe it&#39;s not exactly a legal tactic but quite effective.

THE GOOD NEWS?
Like others have suggested, switching to a different P2P application seems to resolve the issue. I downloaded SoulSeek last night.. and I&#39;m very impressed. In fact, I seem to notice a trend with those traders that when searching a users files, most of them have their albums all separated in convenient little folders. You just right-click on the folders and get the whole CD. Lots of other very nice features too. Unfortunatlely, I understand the server goes down more than you would expect, and my first day today proved that to be true. It was down for about an hour and a half. But.. I downloaded 3 CD&#39;s that are no longer accessible on Kazaa and all songs play perfectly. Perhaps the WinMX referenced above this post might be a good solution, as well.

In any case.. I would bet that it is just a matter of time until the crafty programmers at Kazaa figure out what&#39;s going on and figure out a programming solution. Unfortunately, P2P apps aren&#39;t anything I&#39;ve ever even looked in to, so I wouldn&#39;t have an idea where to begin. Until then.. rest assured that P2P will still go on. Unfortunately, Kazaa might become the next Napster of file-swapping for a while. File traders will move on to the next app... the RIAA will be 2 steps behind as usual.. and by the time they catch up, the traders will move on again. Such is the world of computers... for every programming &#39;Do&#39;, there&#39;s a programming &#39;Undo&#39;.

Happy Trading&#33;&#33;
wolfdogg