OK, so I took one folder of music from my stick, and backed it up on a second stick. This has 138 songs. I ran them thru MP3 Diags. A number of problems were there, including null streams, invalid ID3V2 streams, among other things. I figure nothing to lose since it is all a backup anyway, and I …

MP3diags likes ID3vx tags but not APE tags. (Yes, this is a program that has problems with these tags). So get rid of the APE tags first, then run MP3diags again. The number of "Unsupportd ID3V2tag" messages should be lower. Two ID3v1 tags looks a lot like a good cause for the problems that you hav…

Well, I am doing all my folders now, as described, one at a time, since I am off work. No loss no matter what, since this is all backup, and I end up with clean files. I may be at times annoying, but I have my own way of coming at things, and sorry if I annoyed you before, not my intent. Anyway, …

Incidentally, in doing this I discovered one file that was WAV and not MP3, so I converted it. So let me ask the dumb question now... How does all this garbage get into the files in the first place? Nice that there is a way to get rid of it!

[image] Angela: How does all this garbage get into the files in the first place? That I cannot answer. You are the only one who knows where you got the files from and/or which tools you used to convert them. But it would be along that chain that some program messed things up. BTW: you do no…

Well, let me get this all done first with MP3 and see if it solves the problem. THEN, I can try another backup and see if I can do FLAC files. Are there other lossless formats, in case FLAC does not work? By the way, I use Any Video Converter to convert to MP3 files. Sometimes, I download from Y…

[image] Angela: Are there other lossless formats, in case FLAC does not work? There are several lossless compression formats. FLAC is probably the most universally usable one other than with Apple devices (still doable but not native). The ALAC format is similar in function to FLAC and works …

Agreed on the last point, but I am a bit old-fashioned, and usually keep a complete copy on a USB stick that is not normally in the computer. That is what I am doing right now after fixing everything.

[image] Angela: By the way, I use Any Video Converter to convert to MP3 files An easy way would be to check the files (with MP3diags) before you convert them and afterwards. If no errors have been added, then this tool seems to work ok.

A worthy thought I shall have to keep in mind!

Update. It worked! My dongs don't seem to quite be in alpha order but who cares...they are all there and they work. Now will try FLAC.

Enlighten us - what could [image] Angela: It have been? Describe the steps with the actual settings so that others could benefit from your experience.

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