Posted October 17, 200717 yr A few days ago I played a couple of MP3s that have been sitting on my hard drive for a long time--files I know are of pretty good quality. They sounded like absolute crap. Skipping, clicking noises every couple of seconds...just unbearable. I had backups on CDs, so I did a comparison using WinDiff--they turned out to be identical, so I figured there was no point in re-copying them over to my hard drive. I played the backups--they also sounded like crap, which was puzzling, because I *know* I've played them all before and they all sounded fine. For the hell of it just tried playing them again today (the files on my hard drive, that is)...it's been a couple of reboots since last time. The same files sounded fine. Windiff says they're still identical to my backups (not that I was expecting any differently, TBH). What's the verdict in a case like this? It's not the media players themselves, 'cuz they (MP11 and Winamp) gave the same results. Corrupted audio driver state, which a reboot took care of? It's not the first time I get this...anybody else has had this intermittent problem?
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