Posted by fred-bloggs on 12/09/06 13:48

"ChrisH" <chris.cholt@virgin.net> wrote in news:1165671177.220222.28480
@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

>
> I downloaded a discography and all the mp3 files in one of the album
> folders are corrupt. All the songs in that folder will play ok in VLC
> Media Player but not in WMP9 or WinAmp.
>
> I am using Win2K, and when I right click on a file and choose
> properties I get a message "the properties for this file are not
> available" but in VLC the stream and media info says 44100 Hz and 256
> kb/s and the track duration
>
> In Windows, My Computer won't let me copy the files to another
> directory, it says "cannot find the specified file"
>
> so what is the problem? how can i fix the files so i can move them to
> my music archive and burn them to CD?
>
>
> tia
>

Have you tried renaming them? The filenames may have characters not
recognised by your system.

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fred

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