Weird problem with media files stored on another hard drive?

The Grinch

I am having a weird problem that i never noticed before.
I have a slave drive, and i have my mp3 library saved on to it, and i noticed recently that the beginning of many of the songs are skipped. So maybe the song starts at 3 sec or so.

I asked a question about this on another forum. I thought it was just a WMP bug, but someone replied to that topic and asked if it happened with only WMP, and if the songs were stored on a flash drive/ etc another drive.

and i then tested itunes, and it did the same thing.

So i am guessing its a bug in windows with media files saved onto other drives.

has anyone ever heard of this before? Or know a way to resolve it?

thanks
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LP-SolidRaven · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:10 am Post subject:

I have more hard drives in my computer than there is space in the case (they're stacking ontop of the case at the moment and next to it) and I've never had that. If it's a problem with windows it's vista or windows 7 related.
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pharmer4 · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:34 am Post subject:

There was an issue at one point with a version of iTunes ripping songs to aac format, and removing a few seconds from the END of the cd.

I have hitachi 1tb deathstars (i mean deskstars) in a netgear SC101t external housing, and I've never ever had issues with the quality of the mp3s etc degrading.

Is it something that has only just HAPPENED, or something that you've only just NOTICED? it could be an error with the programme or hardware ripping the song if it has always been there unnoticed.
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marinaroz · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

Have you tried moving the songs to another drive and playing them there? Would they play normally then?

If several different players do the same thing, it might be that the files themselves are somehow corrupted. Maybe they've got to be this way during the transition to that drive.
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LP-SolidRaven · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

krt · ... Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 4977 Location: Down Under

Could it be that the drive is simply very slow? When I do heavy disk operations and have music at the same time, in sometimes skips and takes its time to load files, the latter possibly explaining the delay at the start of the files. If it's a drive where it's age or performance is questionable, I'd do a fitness test on it. If you still have Linux installed or a live CD, you could try with that to isolate the issue to a process running on Windows or Windows itself.
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The Grinch · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

Actually i tested this some more, and it skipps like 5-15 seconds of many songs, on my main drive, or any other drive they are on. This is seriously starting to annoy me.
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spock · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:52 am Post subject:

Never had this problem with windows XP. Maybe the harddrive is corrupted in some way?
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The Grinch · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject:

I think i figured out what happen. I couldn't find anything online that helped me, so i decided to copy the actual mp3's to my phone and other media devices and they were cut off in the beginning on there as well.

Turns out there was some bug, or is some bug with windows seven pre beta builds, or with the windows media player 12 beta that came with it. And one of them spliced up my songs and cut off the beginning to many of my mp3's, which sucks because its random how it happened, and i have thousands of mp3's i have to replace with backups and such.

I never knew a OS, even a Beta could do such a thing, or would. or even a beta mp3 player.

AHH!
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Xtreme $niper · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:04 am Post subject:

My best guess would be that this probably happened during the encoding process of the songs (if you ripped the songs from CDs) and just didn't notice it until now.

Sounds like a pretty weird problem to me, but yeah my first guess was that the drive may just be slow... But if even your phone is doing it then it's obviously just the mp3.
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krt · ... Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 4977 Location: Down Under

Turns out it's a bug in Windows Media Player 12 (which I assume you're using as you mentioned you are trying/using Windows 7). When writing metadata, it also overwrites the first few seconds in a song.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367

Hope you had backups.
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