Can anyone advise why all my downloaded music has developed a scratched or jumping quality to it? Is there a nasty bit of software that will cause this? It has only appeared after downloading music from a torrent. Any info would be greatly acknowledged?
I never heard of that one before. It is easy to foul up music. Maybe you music is corrupt. What client are you using? Some are not very good at keeping things clean. Maybe a robot thing is helping the process along. The problem with sharing music is you do not know the source and how it was processed. Maybe you have a encoder incompatibility problem. I have heard of that happening even using the same tool (WMP) to rip. The encoder was up graded and not fully compatible with older high bit rate files. You need to look for commonality of the problem. I recommend using utorrent or bittorrent. They are one in the same. It takes the most care to insure that you get what you should me getting. Try playing the music with different players. Believe it or not some audio problems can be created by the tag data. I would make copies and blank out all the tag data for one tune and see if that helps. Try DLing lossless music. See if that gets screwed up. Lossless is less fragile than lossy music.
What are the audio specs?.What format?..What are you playing them with,IOW, what SW player?..And yes! you never know what ur Dl'ing..
Thank you for the replies. I am not very savvy with what some of the terminology is so I have tried to do the following. Stopped using Windows Media Player and now using Media Monkey. The majority of files are MP3 and WMA files with bit rates from 96 through to 320. I have a few at the 1032 bit rate is that possible? Some of the torrents has tag material and I will slowly remove some and trail and error it. I save all my music on an external hard drive as my laptop has a 320GB capcity. I have noticed that the when I play music from the external hard drive, it is scrtachy / jumpy notically more than off the internal hard drive. I have burned some music and it has transfered onto the CD. Will let you know what happens after the changes. Thanks
1032 is possible but ought to be lossless for it to be believed. The reality is 320 is total over kill for listening pleasure. No one can hear that much. Above that you are preserving everything (lossless). Many fussy listeners keep a lossless archive so it can be used to make a lossy copy. You really should not take a WMA and convert it to an mp3. You can never do that perfectly. Your computer's speed is to blame. Your CPU is not fast enough to transfer the music smoothly. The music has to me converted to USB then converted back on the other side of the USB. You could reduce the bit rate but that would be a temp solution that wiould leave you with lower fidelity music. Your solution is as good as any.
Mez, Thank you for your wisdom. A quick call around to the girlfriends place and her brand new computer confirmed all. Just waiting on Santa to finish building my new computer. Kind Regards, Lucid2day
