[Marn67]

I seem to be coming across more and more faulty tracks with clicks or songs that end suddenly before the track has played out. MP3 Sparks seem happy to credit money for the track but the faults never seem to be rectified. Disappointing if you want the whole album!!! Anybody else having the same issues?

Why can't the faulty tracks be rectified?

[MP3junk1E]

Some songs are corrupted during the MP3 encoding process. This happens very rarely, perhaps with one in several hundred songs.

The way around it is to download a FLAC encoded version of the problematic song. The FLAC versions are always perfect, as far as I've seen.

• Use the FLAC front-end application to convert the FLAC to WAV format.
• Use RazorLAME to convert the WAV to MP3.
• Use MP3Tag to put the tag info in the file, including album art.

Selecting the FLAC download format opens other choices you don't normally see, including 384Kbps MP3, which is the original source format of all their music. Oddly, if you go back to downloading 320Kbps or lower MP3s, the extra options disappear, until you next select FLAC for a download.

[solaris]

Originally Posted by Marn67

I seem to be coming across more and more faulty tracks with clicks or songs that end suddenly before the track has played out. MP3 Sparks seem happy to credit money for the track but the faults never seem to be rectified. Disappointing if you want the whole album!!! Anybody else having the same issues?

Why can't the faulty tracks be rectified?

Did you address this to Assistance? I'm sure they would like to know

[MP3junk1E]

Ahh . . . I have a new wrinkle to iron out:

Shawn Mullins' "Tannin Bed Song" yields a corrupt MP3.

There's no FLAC available for it, however. I was able to download a 320Kbps OGG file, decode it with Rareware's oggDropXP, encode it with RazorLAME, tag it with MP3Tag, and finally burn it to CD with feurio!

Sucks getting those corrupted songs. I hate paying for the same thing two or three times. Fortunately, it happens only rarely.