Hi Guys

I suppose that about 10% of the Mp3's I have, seem to have synch errors as noted in listening by skips, clicks etc and Foobar by the console and by MP3Utility's report.

I am best to keep them and try to get a better version ?

I do like the idea of keeping them so at least I have "something" but the skips ARE annoying

Or delete them all right now ?

I get a lot of my Mp3's from the internet. Should we mount a campaign to get as many people as possible to delete their files with synch errors to try to tidy the whole thing up ?

Regards

Digby
NZ

First of all you should get rid of any faulty hardware that may be in your system. If you haven't received the files like that, then it's your hardware causing data corruption and not only on mp3...



That seems to be a good idea anyway because...



is most probably also illegal in New Zealand.



There will certainly be no campaigns here that deal with subjects that are violating the Terms of Service of this forum.

So deleting files with sync errors violates the TOS on ha.org? Gotta say I haven't noticed this one yet, but then again I'm not an avid reader of the TOS either, so I might simply have missed it

edit: corrected the quote formatting

I said starting to tell everyone in this forum "Please have a look in your P2P-applications shares for corrupted mp3s and delete them, so everyone can happily download non-corrupt music." is definitely not TOS compliant because talking openly about illegal filesharing will draw unwanted attention to this forum.

If it was only about deleting corrupted mp3s then I wouldn't complain... but it's more than that.

I get it Fandango but that's imo and strictly imo a sad (although plausible and unfortunately widespread) TOS interpretation... there's no worse censorship than self-censorship and I find it quite unfortunate that people are willing to severly limit themselves out of fear of the "enter favourite opressor here" and go even beyond what the opressor does - just in case. Personal freedom turning in the grave as we speak.

Do I personally stand to profit from this campaign? No.
Am I in favour of it? Not really, seems kinda pointless, even ill conceived if you will. Educating people about data corruption and its prevention would be much better, not to mention more "politically correct" .
I'm just generally unhappy that something as benign and vague (absolutely no explicit illegality, but just a possibility of it on a case by case basis - which of course could be said about almost any human activity) as simply promoting the deletion of corrupted files (in ones share folder) has to be silenced.

Discussion of illegal file sharing is prohibited in the TOS. This is because it is illegal file sharing which is not an infringement of your right of free speech but theft pure and simple. Please do not treat us to a vapid display of excuses about how it is free speech. We have all heard the whine and it could get you bounced off the board.

Sorry guys.

I di dnot mean to cause any offence !

But it looks like we'll have have to try to delete any corrupt Mp3's from our collection.

Regards

Digby

I live in Canada where it is legal to download music.It's not piracy if its legal.but i still send the artist themselves 10 bucks if i download a lossless copy of there cd.

because talking openly about illegal filesharing will draw unwanted attention to this forum.

If it was only about deleting corrupted mp3s then I wouldn't complain... but it's more than that.

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What if its legal for me?Would it still be talking illegal firesharing even though its perfectly legal for me?

The operators of this forum have decided, for their own reasons, that they don't want people to talk about file sharing on Hydrogenaudio. Their reasons might be legal, moral, ethical or otherwise. It's not censorship - it's not being "opressed by The Man" or anything else - it's somebody giving you the opertunity to use their resources under some conditions. It's like a friend saying "you can borrow my paintbrush, as long as you don't use it to remove your bellybutton lint".

If you don't like it, take your malformed pleading about why you should be allowed to download copies of music (but not everybody else) and go elsewhere.

Filesharing issues aside, does the OP really need to ask whether he should delete mp3 files that have synch errors? Can't he use his own judgment and decide to keep the ones he can tolerate and delete the ones he finds too annoying to keep? Does he really need advice on this? Let's move on to some real issues please.

Nowhere was illegal filesharing mentioned in the original post. What makes you automatically assume that all files downloaded are copyrighted?