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Originally Posted by JonnyOneNote  I think then that those songs WITHOUT A BIT RATE listed are some sort of virus or spyware, probably designed for Windows users since the "songs" don't really do anything on Mac OS X. Someone out there is deliberately uploading these files with a bogus "mp3" extension on it. It could very well be an "exe" extension, which of course will not launch on Macs. |
Probably correct. There are viruses out there posing as mp3's. And of course they will not load on Mac OSX. I have been personally arranging my search results in different ways to block out the spammers. One is to arrange by bit rate so those search results that show zero bit rate are at bottom of list. I then ban those ip's (control click that file in search result). Problem of course is spammers are generally on very large networks, and they change their ip's. They might even change their ip multiple times a day, surmising there though. Their ip's often tend to come from similar area in USA (via same isp.) Another issue is the more popular a search is, the more the spammers target it. Need to be very careful about banning ip's however. Including the network ones such as 10.x.xx or 192.xxx
I also check for program listings in search results which are obviously duplicating the search title when searching for music (using audio or general search type).