File corruption from moving in windows?

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AngryJim

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My computer has 4 drives, around 2.5 terrabytes in total, all using SATA. Quite honestly everything was a mess, not very organized. I spent some time moving stuff around on and between drives to make things easier to deal with. Problem is, now as I'm listening to music I'm finding weird squeaks and squelches that I know were not there before. Is it possible that just transferring mp3s from one drive to another can cause errors like this?

I haven't gone through my tv and movie collection yet, but I'd hate to have to re-rip everything if they are corrupted as well.
 
If you have bad memory yeah its possible to get data corruption just copying files around. OS will buffer data in memory, memory corrupts the data, OS then writes corrupted data to new drive. ta-da!

FLAC files store a hash of the music data (aka not tags) so you can verify their integrity with any flac app. With mp3 and crap there is no fullproof way of finding corruption. The best you can do is install Foobar2000 and find the decoding test optional component or something... not sure its exact name... but after installed you just put all your music in a playlist, highlight it all, right click and pick like 'decode test' or whatever its called and it will let you save a list that generated any errors or warnings while decoding.
 
foobar2000 also has a rebuild mp3 stream option I believe

MAKE sure you fix the hardware issue with your box BEFORE you mess with the files or it will probably mess them up even worse
 
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