I really didn’t know where to post this question so if it’s in the wrong place by all means move it around.
I would love to play MP3’s on my computer but when I download them to winamp or musicmatchjukebox they play but are intermittened. I only get every other beat in a song.
I am running IE5/windows95. I don’t have a lot of memory 516 MB’s to start and only about 150 MB’s unused (ok you can stop chuckling now).
Can anyone out there give me a hint as to why those mp3’s won’t play well enough to even listen to?
PS. the same thing happens when I put an MP3 Cd in.
Thankee
What kind of processor do you have? And how much RAM? If it’s only a 486, programs like WinAmp won’t work well, but I believe there’s a special mp3 player that will work with 486 machines, I can’t remember the name, though. I’ll try to find it for you.
I often get the same or similar problem when I download mp3s with my PC from certain sites. The problem seems to be with file corruption, though it strikes me as strange that the download software doesn’t detect that something has gone wrong. The wierd thing is that not all sites give me this problem, but for the ones that do, corrupt songs are always corrupt. For a while there I was just assuming that the files were corrupt at the server, however the other day I was talking to a friend who had successfully downloaded one of the files, that failed for me, using his Macintosh. I then transferred the file that failed on my PC to my Mac at home… still didn’t work. Then I downloaded the file using my Mac and everything was fine. I transferred the file to my PC… still fine. I re-downloaded the file to my PC once again… corrupt! I don’t know what’s going on, but it sure is frustrating. I suspect that what you’re seeing is the same. Try using the “download” link on a few songs at mp3.com and see if they play right for you. I never have problems with file corruption from mp3.com.
32 mbs ram
486 or smaller can’t remember at this moment and I am at work.
Remember I said these mp3’s don’t work on
Musicmatch
Winamp
CD
I had a friend in london burn me a CD and send it to me. Sounds the same as a download from the net…intermittin…like maybe it isn’t buffered correctly, altho I don’t think that is the case.
HEP HEP anyone
and thanks for the suggestions so far!
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(Paul Newman in The Hustler)
You might also try changing the settings in WinAmp to be 486 compatible.
Under the Options menu, choose Preferences. Then under plug-ins, highlight Input, then find the Nullsoft MPEG audio decoder. Choose Configure. Under the Decoder tab you can change the quality to half or 1/4. This will stop the skipping.
ALSO, you may run into a situation where the mp3 files sound scrambled - you can still pick out the tune, but it sounds pretty hosed up. I’m not sure of the details, but I think that if you upload an mp3 as ASCII instead of binary, you get this phenomenon. There’s a piece of freeware called “phix” that can clean those files up. It’s worked really well for me in the past.
