Remember way back when people were complaining that Napster would not share certain files without any rhyme or reason? I looked into the matter and discovered that the files in my collection that Napster would not share all had misplaced headers. The Winamp decoder said all the files had headers that started at some random place like 27 bytes or 49 bytes, rather than at 0 bytes were they were supposed to be and that's why Napster rejected them. I suspect it was their way of filtering out the bad MP3's (even thoug Winamp plays those files just fine).
Maybe it's time for all the p2p's out there to start implimenting quality filters that will detect recompressed MP3's and not only reject them but tell the user that they are bad files. People are obviously misinformed and p2p's should take up the responsibility of educating the public.
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