Question about transferring music via USB stick, from a PC to a laptop?
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April 26th, 2012
I recently transferred all my music from my PC to my laptop. Most of the songs seem to still be of good quality. However, some of them are jumpy/skipping during playback. All of the music was fine before the transfer. 99% of the music are originally from CDs. It is only an 8GB stick so I had to do it over several times (as my music library is massive).
I’m wondering what happened and if it is because I did it through USB stick? Do I need to re-rip them from disc again? Or can I fix this some other way? I use Windows Media Player for playback.
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I could be corrupted data, witch recopying will fix..
But just a quick question, are your computers on the same netwoor? then it is probably easier to just copy from machine to machine..
Yep you might have some corrupted files on your hands. You could try once more with the USB method, but if they don’t copy over well, you might consider networking your computers together. If you can’t do that wirelessly, one ethernet cable should do the trick.
Alternately, you can use FTP to upload the files, then download them on the other one (sometimes USB drives can be annoying)
Is it possible the laptop is old and slow and the laptop is having a hard time processing the files? It happens to huge 1080p video files sometimes, maybe it can happen with audio files? Are they mp3, wma, flac? Did you try using vlc? Maybe wmp is having a hard time with the files, try vlc. Are you certain you are reading them from the laptop and not from somewhere else over the network and the network is slowing down the file transfer? WMP could be reading from the old location – ensure your WMP library is reading from the new local location on the laptop.
How do they become corrupted if they were fine before?
@Staalesen Yes, they are on the same network but I didn’t know how to do it from machine to machine. The PC is quite old but the laptop is from last year.
@gambitking I have networked them together. I managed to share the files with my laptop but only when the PC was powered on (which is why I ended up copying them to the laptop). I don’t know what FTP is.
@Charles No, the laptop is new and the PC is old. The files are all mp3. I’m not sure what you mean by reading them from somewhere else over the network. My network contains my PC, laptop and my Xbox (over WiFi) but the Xbox doesn’t have any music on it. After transferring the files, I stopped sharing them over the network.
It is unlikely that the file copy caused this. you can run a chkdsk on the thumb drive to see if there is corruption. If there was corruption, the file would more than likly not even play.
You can always try it again on a song that sounds “jumpy”.
You can also try listening to it off the thumb drive on old versus new to help determine where the issue is.
Are you using the same application on the old pc and new pc to launch the file (song).
@blueiiznh Yes, I’m using the same program to run the files. I don’t know what you mean by thumb drive (maybe the small files in the actual music folder?).
Sorry everyone, I’m not highly knowledgeable in computers. I know more than most people around me but nowhere near what all of you do.
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