Play error after conversion

jockomo3

Hello I converted the bit rate on a whole (damn) file of mp3s now a majority of them only play the first note of a mp3 file and then goes silent....is there a method to reset the file? and what'd I do wrong? The conversion was to mp3 at 128 bitrate on Win XP Pro

Tom_McKee

jockomo3 wrote:

Hello I converted the bit rate on a whole (damn) file of mp3s now a majority of them only play the first note of a mp3 file and then goes silent....is there a method to reset the file? and what'd I do wrong? The conversion was to mp3 at 128 bitrate on Win XP Pro

Well, I wish I had the answer for I have the same problem. I am downsizing mp3 files to get more on a USB drive, and Switch had worked very nicely for this task. I first did the conversions to another file for 10 or 12 conversions with no trouble and then chose the overwrite option which went well for many conversions. Suddenly I find that the last 4 folders converted have almost all files showing the problem you describe above. No indication of any errors on the conversion. Bad, bad news. I hope someone (NCH?) knows whether anything can be done to recover the bad files. It's off with overwrite and back to converting to another folder, for me.

Tom_McKee

jockomo3 wrote:

Hello I converted the bit rate on a whole (damn) file of mp3s now a majority of them only play the first note of a mp3 file and then goes silent....is there a method to reset the file? and what'd I do wrong? The conversion was to mp3 at 128 bitrate on Win XP Pro

Well, here's more information, but little help in recovering the damaged files. All of my mp3 downsizing conversions that went wrong are accompanied by Real Player .pls files being created in the destination folder - one for each file converted (and damaged). I cannot find any function in the Switch program's Options that have anything to do with the creation of .pls files. ????

I tried the program MP3val ( http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_validator.html ) It finds the problem with the files, but its repair function does not fix it, but it does fix some other errors in unconverted files. I'm still searching the Internet for help in recovering the damaged files.