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Topic: error message on computer, help needed

Posted By: acheron
Subject: error message on computer, help needed
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 02:31

Ok I just got a bunch of new music and I put it all on a data disc, but then when i tried to copy the music to my computer with iTunes I get this message "Data error: Cyclic Redundancy check"

i have no idea what to do, but i really want this music on my other computer

its really annoying because all of the songs play fine, and about 1/3rd of the songs copy to the computer fine, but most of them give me this message

they are all either mp3, or wav files, so there shouldnt be any problem with format or anythng like that

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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 03:41

If they all play- this sounds strange. Have you tried just copying the files on the cd to a folder on the hard drive of your other computer? I don't mean using itunes- just explore the cd drive and copy all the files then paste them to a folder on your drive

Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 04:03

A Cyclic Redundancy Check error occurs when data in the files is corrupted. This corruption depends on the algorithm being used to check for corruption - it could be something as simple as converting the file to a huge binary number and dividing it by the size of the expected number - if there's a difference, then an error is reported.

If the file plays OK on another application, then that suggests that there is nothing wrong or corrupt with the music part of the file, but that the part of the file which tells the application how to interpret the music is not what is expected by the application.

In short it sounds like the problem is in the file header - so re-encoding the file(s) could sort this out.

If the music is already in data format, you could simply copy the data to a folder on your computer (presumably a PC rather than a Mac?), then play the music in Media Player. I've never used iTunes, as I don't see the point.

Try using a program such as WavePad (FREE!!!) to open the files and save them into the format you are using. WavePad allows batch conversion of files, so you don't have to open each in turn.

Hope some of this helps!