Author Topic: blurps glurps pops and flubs in mp3s.... (Read 3682 times)

White Stripes · « **on:** August 24, 2006, 05:07:07 pm »

any way to fix em? i know some decoders can handle them better than others but is there a program out there specifically designed to sniff out and at least to the best of its abilities 'fix' the blips and glurps?

KM · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2006, 06:09:00 pm »

erm, if you get a good mp3 you shouldn't have any problems with it, if you keep getting poor quality ones with extra background noise added they could possibly be the ones being flooded by netsentry - if you have the latest winmxgroup patch then those would be filtered

many of the search results put there by flooders simply don't download, however some of the netsentry ones do (they either start then don't ever complete, or sometimes complete and are low quality)

if you don't have the patch then it may help to install it and see if you stop getting bad mp3's... <insert comment here claiming not to support copyright breech or some such nonsense for legal reasons>

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2006, 06:20:47 pm »

Try to get files with bitrates of 128 and above. They are generally good ones

Cheers

White Stripes · « **Reply #3 on:** August 24, 2006, 07:19:51 pm »

its not mp3s with background noise added by flooders (ive honestly never come across such) or mp3s with low bitrates but mp3s with 'bad spots' in them... corrupt areas from being copied from dying harddrives or rescued from scratched cdrs with programs like iso-buster... or from a hiccup in downloading them using programs like getright (from places like mp3.com a very long time ago)... just intermittent bad spots... not a whole bad file...

Bearded Blunder · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2006, 09:14:16 pm »

just a passing thought, but you could trawl round for a vanishing breed of software "LP Ripper" most of those came with systems for dealing with surface noise, pops scratches & other problems that worn records used to exhibit, so you could make a half decent cd from them... they might have exactly the kind of processing you're seeking here

7 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 24, 2006, 09:28:45 pm »

Maybe something like 'mp3directcut' could do it as it can edit mp3s directly without needing to decompress/recompress the contents. Not too sure how good it might be for editing tiny glitches though. Other than that, grab a waveform editor like Cool Edit / Soundforge and edit the file directly (decompresses to wave and recompresses when saved).

Dunno about anything else than that myself. I'd just look to redownload a track in these cases than attempt to repair it.