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I've noticed when I load music onto my PSP, a signifcant portion of the files show up as corrupt. They're all ripped the same (160kbps, joint stereo) in itunes, and yet usually a third to a half show up as corrupt data. Any clue what I'm doing wrong? Are there certain characters the PSP can't grok? Maybe a file length limit?

 

[sonycowboy]

I've noticed when I load music onto my PSP, a signifcant portion of the files show up as corrupt. They're all ripped the same (160kbps, joint stereo) in itunes, and yet usually a third to a half show up as corrupt data. Any clue what I'm doing wrong? Are there certain characters the PSP can't grok? Maybe a file length limit?

Have you burned the music back to a CD first? Apple MP3's are wrapped in AAC which is a copyright protection scheme which keeps them from being copied (other than to some other number of iPods or Macs). The way to get around that is to burn a CD, then import from there, but you could lose a little quality, not that it should matter that much.

 

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Nah. I've set the encoding option to rip them as straight MP3 files. The only ones with AAC encryption by default are ITMS tracks. These are all ones I ripped from CDs I own.

Again, most of them work.

 

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AH HA!

OSX (or itunes) was creating tiny little dummy files. So, if I had HotelCalifornia.mp3, it would create .HotelCalifornia.mp3, which was only 82 bytes and showed up as corrupt.

 

[sportzhead]

An easy way to locate the actual song file from iTunes is to, control click on the song, and then select "show song file" then you can just drag and drop.

Also if you have Tiger, you can just search spotlight for the song file.