Strange Sound, Screeching Songs...et Cetera

C-Mac · 11-02-2003, 01:13 AM

Okay, perhaps I'm a little late on this, and I'm nearly sure some of these have been suggested so far, but I'll be honest... I haven't read all 37 pages on this topic.

Here's what I've gathered: Download MP3s from users that return just ONE result. This seems to be the best way to do it to avoid the screeching sounds after 15-20 seconds. Okay, so you all probably know that. Again, forgive me if this has already been brought up, but why don't we all take to editing our MP3s? I use GoldWave, myself. I'm not talking drastic, but maybe just add half a second of nothingness to the end of our MP3s. If I've got this right, this would differentiate our MP3s from the popular ones which are corrupted, wouldn't it? It would add a few KBs to the file, and thus we would not appear as one of the 37 users who have the corrupted MP3 (although of course it would not be corrupted on our computers). We would appear as a completely separate entry from the spoofed MP3 because ours is half a second longer and a few KBs bigger, just by adding the half second of dead air. So whoever is behind this will have to create a spoof for our new file, same KBs and all. If we edit our MP3s every couple of weeks or so, either adding or subtracting an insignificant amount of dead air, I see no problem here.

Now there is a good chance I am missing something here - Maybe the corrupted files don't need to be the same KB to show up under the same entry, I don't know. Anyway, correct me where I am wrong, but no flaming please? I'm just trying to help out a bit.

gibbs36 · 11-02-2003, 07:34 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong...but if the next version of kazaa disables the automatic "find more sources for download" option, and downloads each file from only one source it would correct this problem. If i have a file on my computer that is not corrupt, and someone tries to download that file, they shouldn't have a problem. However, when someone starts downloading a file from my computer, and one of these computers from the record companies comes in as another source for the download, the part of the file that was downloaded from the record company's computer will be corrupt.

They have plenty of bandwith to support several hundred thousand users, so every file is at least partially downloaded from one of their computers. If you could download a file from only one person, even when there are hundreds of people with the same file, we wouldn't have this problem. download times would be a little slower, but we would be able to get music. I just hope there's an update to kazaa that fixes this before too many of these corrupt files get onto people's hard drives, then it'll be almost impossible to download music.

**Celerystalksme** · 11-02-2003, 07:41 AM

noob conversations are great

**andwhat112** · 11-03-2003, 02:00 AM

I've been viewing a couple of these messed up songs in notepad and found that the screeching starts where the file seems to repeat itself. The beginning marker for the screeching sound appears to be some variant of the following...

!#$%%
or
!"##$&&

Then the ending of the pattern is...

abcdÿû
or
aaccÿû

But I don't suppose the ending of this loop would always be the same, unless the people who screwed these MP3 were stupid. I don't think they are.

My solution to this problem is listen to the music you download and just skip 20 or 30 seconds into the song, if your hear the screech delete that song and better luck next time. So far I've only seen this happen to MP3s and not larger files like movies.

**Jayhawk** · 11-03-2003, 02:19 AM

Originally posted by Celerystalksme@2 November 2003 - 01:41
noob conversations are great

they sure are

**Rotten_Apple** · 11-03-2003, 02:40 AM

Originally posted by wolfdogg@25 October 2003 - 15:58
And yet another good article on Overpeer, Inc.

http://64.225.202.40/mediadefender/press%2...lobe_7_7_03.htm

Also.. I noticed the mp3 checker link on the tips page is no longer valid.  Could somebody send this tool to me?  I want to try it out.  I'm at [email protected]    Thanks! 

USE SOULSEEK!  IT'S FANTASTIC.. AND USERS SHARE ENTIRE ALBUMS, NOT JUST SINGLES!

any chance you could provide a link for SOULSEEK