Songs are shortened

[jaspercs]

All of my songs have been shortened to random lengths. Some for less than a minute. If I browse to the folder and play directly there through MP3 program, the songs are fine but through SS (and even cached SS apps) they are all short. Any suggestion?

[BKKKPewsey]

If they are VBR I suggest you check the header info - it sounds as if they are corrupt.
That will effect SS more then a non-streaming player which will load the whole file into memory and may ignore faulty headers.

[jaspercs]

Thank you for your response. I will try not to be one of those you describe in your footer:

I found a program that does a batch scan and finds this for my songs: (the program is mp3validator)

"It seems that file is truncated or there is garbage at the end of the file"

I run a 'fix' and it says, "File was rebuilt" but no change. Is there more I should do or is this a whole new ripping job of my 5,000+ songs?

[BKKKPewsey]

MP3 validator is good but I have found that sometimes it will not repair vbr headers correctly.
Try using vbrfix which I have used to some success on problem files. (Again assuming that they are VBR and not CBR)

[jaspercs]

Thanks again. Just used that and they all came back, "Skipping as the file is not vbr". My friend said they were ripped at too low a bit rate. Sometimes technology aint so grand. At least I have found an awesome ripper (Exact Audio Copy) and have verified that the ripping works with SS. Now, it's a summer of ripping... But at least I'm not stealing.

Thanks so much for your help and input. Tech forums are the greatest!