defragmenting disk drives ruin mp3s??

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Posted by mr. poopyhead on Feb-06-2003 05:53:

defragmenting disk drives ruin mp3s??

i defragmented my drive and a bunch of my mp3s now have skips.... i'm pretty sure it must've been the defragmenting that ruined them, cause i never move my mp3s around or anything.. has anyone had the same problem??? its pissing me off... i'm gonna have to rip some cds over again, and download the damaged tracks over again...

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Posted by Ultraphu on Feb-06-2003 06:12:

I've never heard of this problem!

But anything is possible i guess..

Posted by RedLunatik on Feb-06-2003 06:53:

it shouldnt have though

never heard of this problem either

Posted by KilldaDJ on Feb-06-2003 07:22:

it does happen and over time, the mp3s will come together again [the skips go away]
u could try and scandisk ur comp
dunno whever it will help, but thats what i did and my mp3s sound ok

Posted by mr. poopyhead on Feb-06-2003 17:10:

well i figured since defrag picks up your files and shuffles them around, it must've been defrag that screwed the files up.... i could be wrong...

Posted by cycloptor on Feb-06-2003 20:32:

quote:
Originally posted by KilldaDJ
it does happen and over time, the mp3s will come together again [the skips go away]
u could try and scandisk ur comp
dunno whever it will help, but thats what i did and my mp3s sound ok

straight up....from time to time an mp3 of mine will skip but it goes away the next time i play it usually. it can be annoying but whatever. no technology is perfect. we humans designed it afterall.

Posted by mndeg on Feb-06-2003 21:21:

um defrag moves whole files,it splits them up and scatters them which would be fragmenting it, not defragmenting it

Posted by CygnusX on Feb-06-2003 21:59:

quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
um defrag moves whole files,it splits them up and scatters them which would be fragmenting it, not defragmenting it

That's what I thought.
I experienced that problem a few times and a simple reboot fixed it.

Posted by jon on Feb-06-2003 23:09:

Re: defragmenting disk drives ruin mp3s??

quote:
Originally posted by mr. poopyhead
i defragmented my drive and a bunch of my mp3s now have skips.... i'm pretty sure it must've been the defragmenting that ruined them, cause i never move my mp3s around or anything.. has anyone had the same problem??? its pissing me off... i'm gonna have to rip some cds over again, and download the damaged tracks over again...

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hrm never seen that before, was it the windows defrag and did u close all the other programs?