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markofkane

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« on: November 14, 2008, 05:37:52 pm »
I think I found the reason why my vista would not recognize and play files: The transfer from one computer, to an external USB drive must have corrupted the files when I imported the files into Vista from my USB external drive.

I am in the process of copying files via network from my XP machine to my Vista machine.

I would have done this before, but I ran out of places to plug in stuff (power strips were full)

I was wondering why the heck my WMA's and my AAC files would not play.

I figured this out on my own, Google was useless in this case.

It's going to take a few hours to transfer by network, but if the files will play, it will be worth it.

Geez, I did not know copying certain music files to an external USB drive would corrupt the files, but it does.[:I][:I][:I][:I][:I][:I]
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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2008, 06:57:39 pm »
If you want my opinion, I think, that when copied correctly, Vista plays WMA's better and without the annoying license agreement thingy. I am so happy with Vista I can't explain how much. And the computer runs so smooth I am worry free for the most part. Mark, you need to quit thinking that every problem you encounter is due to Vista. It's really not so different from XP. Most of it is in people's mind, because change is suppose to suck. Give it a chance my friend, and you can learn to love it as much as I do.
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« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2008, 07:01:10 pm »
Wolf! Wolf!![:D]
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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2008, 07:23:58 pm »
lol, I would love Vista more if it did not seem to cause me problems.

But Vista seemingly is the cause of British lipsync not working (unless you are lucky like me and got it working by accident)

There are cases where Vista is the cause, but I blamed either my computer and/or Vista.

As soon as I get everything ironed out, watch out, World!!!![:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)]
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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2008, 01:32:31 am »
I'm going with Vista; you do not have the codec.
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« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2008, 06:27:22 am »
What? WMA's played fine that came with Vista, it was just files I imported from my external drive.

It's got all the codecs, even the Divx codec pack that allows playing AAC files in windows Media Player.

Why did people not know about this problem before? I never realized that certain files become corrupted (WMA, AAC) when copied to an external Hard drive (maybe because it was not formatted as NTFS) and then copied from the External Hard-drive.

I searched Google, and did not find the problem. IF I knew it was "External Hard-drive corrupts WMA's" then I would have Googled that.

I love Vista at times. There are certain programs I don't like, like Norton products. (Except Ghost, which I love)

I am the type that restores the computer after a problem with a program, or Windows it's self, and doing such a restore messes up Norton "protection" products.

I use Avast, and Windows Defender. That's all I need ( plus Adaware and Spybot scans)

 It wasn't a codec problem, it was file corruption problem.  If there would have been an easy way (a program) to fix all corrupted files, I would not have gone through all this.

But, Vista is not at fault this time. I like it a lot, until it gives me a problem XP did not. [8D][8D][8D][8D]
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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2008, 06:42:47 am »
>> (maybe because it was not formatted as NTFS<<


aaaaahhhaaa!!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2008, 08:48:00 am »
lol.

I am theorizing that putting a NTFS drive on a none NTFS drive causes some files to go haywire.
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« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2008, 08:53:17 am »
Strange, when I import from a network, into Vista, export into the External Hard drive, then play the song, it works.

But export to the External HD using XP, then import same files to Vista, it won't play.

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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2008, 11:21:39 am »
Talking about disc formats, anyone know about USB pen drives ?

I got a 4Gb one today and noticed it was FAT32, not a problem in itself as it all works okay with XP.  I looked at the format option and it only shows 'FAT32', so do I assume that all USB drives use FAT32 and cannot use NTFS ?
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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2008, 11:32:17 am »
Freddy,

All removable media is FAT32 because it is accepted on various systems all cameras are FAT32 so memory cards are FAT32 etc. All versions of Windows accept this format so does Unix and Mac's.
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2008, 12:46:19 pm »
I have been using this 4GB pendrive for quite a while.
I access it from my XP computer, and my Vista laptop.
It is FAT32, and has not given me any trouble so far.
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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2008, 01:10:55 pm »
Thanks :) It's not a problem, I was just curious that only FAT32 was supported.  Now I know.
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