# Sony Vaio stole my music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-vaio-stole-my-music/622723>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 22, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-vaio-stole-my-music/622723 "2012-05-22T15:40:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-vaio-stole-my-music/622723/1 "2012-05-22T15:40:41Z")

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My bad, I accepted some seemingly boring sony update and now I have lost all my mutherfugging music as every file now has a vcm\_mmd extension and has lost many kilobytes of data.

Now some may think that the loss of early chicago house music or ten years of pete tong essential collection is not a bad thing but honestly am stunned, shocked and seriously pissed.

I can’t play files with this extension, but I seriously don’t. can’t, hate to believe I have lost my stuff.

Any Sony Vaio owners know what is happening here?

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-vaio-stole-my-music/622723/2 "2012-05-22T16:57:05Z")

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> **[.vcmf File Extension - Software to open vcmf files](http://www.filefacts.net/vcmf-file-extension)**
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> vcm\_mmd.vcmf files are system files usually generated automatically by Vaio Content Analyzer, found on some Sony VAIO systems, along with user multimedia files like Music, Pictures and Video files,...

May be relevant. It seems they shouldn’t be replacing your .mp3 files.

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**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-vaio-stole-my-music/622723/3 "2012-05-22T17:22:45Z")

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Hmmm… I checked that site. I followed the instructions to disable this vaio add on. But the majority of my stuff ( though strangely not all) still is now unplayable? wtf?