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==Music Store Songs== | |||
If the song came from one of the built in music stores, you can just re-sync it to grab a fresh copy. Do this: | |||
#select the bad song | |||
#right click->trash original files | |||
#right click the Music Store playlist that the song came from, pick "Sync Previous Purchases" | |||
That should fix it! | |||
==Songs that came from Windows== | |||
This is common among songs that were compressed using winzip that you may find on the internet. they aren't technically all corrupt, tho some may actually be. most are compressed using a method that is NOT "deflate" (a typical codec that the ZIP format employs), and there is no software on the mac (stuffit, zlib, BOMArchiveHelper) that can decompress these non-deflate zip files. but move it on over to windows and it'll unzip fine, then re-zip it using zlib, you should be good to go. | This is common among songs that were compressed using winzip that you may find on the internet. they aren't technically all corrupt, tho some may actually be. most are compressed using a method that is NOT "deflate" (a typical codec that the ZIP format employs), and there is no software on the mac (stuffit, zlib, BOMArchiveHelper) that can decompress these non-deflate zip files. but move it on over to windows and it'll unzip fine, then re-zip it using zlib, you should be good to go. | ||
==WinZip== | ==WinZip== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:41, 19 August 2017
Music Store Songs
If the song came from one of the built in music stores, you can just re-sync it to grab a fresh copy. Do this:
- select the bad song
- right click->trash original files
- right click the Music Store playlist that the song came from, pick "Sync Previous Purchases"
That should fix it!
Songs that came from Windows
This is common among songs that were compressed using winzip that you may find on the internet. they aren't technically all corrupt, tho some may actually be. most are compressed using a method that is NOT "deflate" (a typical codec that the ZIP format employs), and there is no software on the mac (stuffit, zlib, BOMArchiveHelper) that can decompress these non-deflate zip files. but move it on over to windows and it'll unzip fine, then re-zip it using zlib, you should be good to go.
WinZip
This just in: there is a WinZip for Mac. I have NOT tried it, but if it works the way i think it will, it may actually be able to unzip the files that were zipped on windows using the "non-deflate" method.
What to do with the rest
If you're left with a bunch that you just can't open, the only thing to do is remove them from your life.
- Go to that "Corrupted Zip Files" playlist
- select all
- go to the edit menu, pick "Trash original files"