i have limewire pro also and have been getting corrupted files almost 4 out of 5 songs......may these contain viruses or is it just a glitch?

please dont guess...reply if u think u know or can be helpful
im on a mac laptop also and just want to be safe
would like to know what most of u r doing

to continue or not to continue.....that is the question!!!!!!!!!

thanx....
Underground Artist

Corruption detection only detects differences from the source(s) - it will not detect viruses, trojans, worms or the like.

It is very unlikely that audio files will contain a virus. It isn't impossible - but such a virus would probably only work on one specific player and are generally very limited in what they can do.

The worst that you are likely to experience from a corrupt file is a square wave in the audio (very sharp and hard rises and falls in the waveform when it reaches the speakers). But it isn't particularly likely in a corrupt MP3s and poorly ripped audio (clicks and pops) are at least as bad. This sort of thing can, theoretically, cause damage to your speakers (more so if at extreme volume and repeated frequently). But don't worry about - there are much easier ways to destroy your speakers.

The fact that you are picking up a high percentage of corrupt files suggests that someone has modified their files - it might be something as trivial as changing the ID3 tag.

Mark

P.S. The check for file corruption is a recent addition to LimeWire - this is why people haven't seen it previously.

Thanks Mark... for your informative reply post!
Much appreciated.

yes Mark.....thank you very very much

u have answered me greatly....i very much appreciate ur helpfullness

^5

peace to all...
Underground Artist

I would think that the reason all of the files of a certain size are corrupt is that the original source of the file created a faulty file and others have then downloaded and shared it. I haven't had much of a problem with corrupt files but I ONLY download mp3 files.

If you want to see the corruption of an mp3 that sounds fine but got you a corrupt warning, I think that you need to convert it to a wav file and open your wave editor, then run the file. I haven't noticed any more pops and chrips from the "corrupt" files then I had from files that I downloaded with earlier versions of Limewire.

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I too am having corrupt file problems. my problem is (and this seems different than any other post) is that after i am alerted that the file i am downloading is corrupt (which ALWAYS happens after the file is done downloading) the file is no where to be found on my computer. i can't find them anywhere and there must be about 20 somewhere on my computer by now. this is very irritating because after waiting for a file to download it turns out to be "corrupted" at least 95% of the time.

is there anything i can do to fix this?


maybe it should be a feature that can be turned off. is it really your responsiblity to filter out files that are potentially damaged? if you say that a virus is no real concern then why else would this be necessary? assuming that most people are interested in music and video you filter out corrupt files because of what? their lack of quality? these are not recordings that have superb(or even good) audio or video qualities. why would a snap, or pop, or glitch in the visuals be of ANY concern? these are really just mediocre representations of better sounding and looking works. i just think the priorities are backwards here.

that's just my two cents.

now, give me a way to fix this and i'll buy a copy of PRO

btw, i'm and OSx user and i have a DSL connection (maybe that makes a difference??)
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That's up to you. My thinking about this though is that if a file is downloaded 'corrupted' then it is different from the files that you downloaded from. Therefore the hash of your file is now different from the original. This matters when someone else tries to download this file and finds two different versions of the 'same' file and has to choose one or the other.

You can't do a swarmed download for files that are different, and a corrupted file is different. If you carry this out on a large scale then you have several versions of the same file that have to be downloaded individually and at a slower rate since you can't swarm download the different file versions.

I have been attempting to download files for about a half a month now, and almost every one of them comes up with the corrupt file notice that everyone is speaking of. I hit the button to continue the download yet I never get the file anywhere that I can find it, and none of the files that have managed to squeek through are useable. This didn't happen to me before which I understand this is a new feature in the upgrade. I am getting quite upset because I can't download any file of any type without getting the corruption notice. And by the way, the notice ALWAYS comes up on the last 1 second of download, never before. Is there something I am doing wrong (though I haven't changed any of my habits or the way I do things), or is this just an "upgrade" that I am going to have to attempt to get used to. Quite honestly, I will not spend the money on something that won't let me download a thing.

If anyone is interested, I am on a Mac G4 with the latest "greatest" version of Lime Wire.

-Frustrated.... but I need help.

Just ignore the corruption message. Maybe one or two bytes have changed - neither mp3s nor videos will be unusable because of a little corruption. You will probably not even notice it.