kazaa lite mp3 problem...

[Creatures]

when i download an MP3 the first 10 seconds sound normal but after that i get a strange sound, has got nothing to do with the song (kind of an error, i thought first) but that happens with all the files i download!

someone knows what this could be? i just updated to kazaa lite 2.1 but still that problem!

Creatures

Maybe they're bad MP3s made by the record companies.

[Martoch]

Is it a really loud, annoying sound? I've had that happen before, but not to all of my downloads...only songs that somebody intentionally put that sound on. I believe it's a plot to deter downloaders.

[Creatures]

yeah that's it martoch, well sounds bad, why do people still share those songs?

Creatures

[Gomer]

too lazy (or ignorant) to delete them.

imo a large portion of kazaa users are mostly computer illiterate college students.

[Bill in SD, CA]

I DL'd a couple of songs from a new album to see if it was worth buying. One was nothing but noise and the other only played half-way through.

Going to buy it anyway though.

Bill

[Sweeper]

I haven't even tried to download any MP3's since this whole thing went into effect. Not worth it IMO. Often wonder if that's the reason for the huge jump in my internet speed now. With less people downloading, more bandwidth available.... Hmmmmm

[bratha]

Is it just Kazaa Lite, because I am using it too and getting the same problem. Really bugs me, I lost quite a few CD's when my car got stolen, and I thought, not a problem, I can just download the good songs, afterall, I bought them all once. But when I did the same static problem. Pretty sure it is a deterant, maybe something to do with the "copy control" logo appearing on a lot of new CD's?

[sgCSvt]

This phenomena(?!?) is not just aggravating K Lite users. I know this has also happened on the last few regular Kazaa releases. I am noticing that the number of "bad" downloads out there is increasing, particularly for new releases.

I have been looking for information on the web about this, and have not been able to find much. I also believe that it is primarily to leaking out bad mp3s to discourage people from downloading. I know people on modem who spend a long time to download one song, only to find out that it blasts out an obnoxious noise at some point and they have to start all over again.

There are some other options to get around this issue (albeit not the best ones):

1) if you have broadband, you can select multiple copies of a song at once and test them out with relative ease

2) use an audio editing program to "cut" out the couple seconds of bad noise. I have noticed that almost all of the files I have heard with the noise only have it in one spot, and the song is otherwise playable.

hope someone out there can shed some more light?

[iseezero]

I think that the makers of Kazaalite should come out with a program that filters out certain bad mp3s. To check for the ones with the annoying noise, the program would simply check for a continuous repeating combination of frequencies. I have got 30-second loop mp3s which are mp3s in which 30 seconds of a song are repeated over and over. To check for this type of bad mp3, the program would check for long combinations of repeating frequencies by simply picking 5 to 10 points at random in the first 10 to 20 seconds of a song and checking to see if the same frequencies comes up when the program goes n seconds later in the mp3 past all the 5 to 10 points initially picked. If the program spots a possible looping mp3, it would notify the downloader about it.