problems with some music files

for some reason i have two CD's that have songs that wont play anywhere but on my home linux box. I ripped the CD all at once but for some reason some of the songs from the cd will play and others wont. What could be the problem? I dont have the option to rip them again because my brother borrowed them (and who knows how long that will take)

 

Could it be that the codecs on the Linux machine are making the difference?

 

Did you rip them using Linux? If you used Ubuntu's Sound Juicer app, it would rip the music in OGG format, which Windows may not have the necessary codecs for. Try installing the K-lite Codec Pack to play OGG files.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm

 

im going to say no, because all my music is encoded in .mp3 and because some songs off of the CD work, and others dont even though i ripped them at the same time without changing any settings

nope, ripped it all as .mp3

 

What error does WMP spit out when you try to play these MP3s, if any?

 

no errors, it just doesnt play anything for about 5-10 seconds then it goes to the next song. (thats what it does for my car deck and for winamp, i didnt try wmp)

It also cannot see/read the tags for these files.

 

Car decks are supposed to be ripped in a certain way, I'm not sure. In any case, you should try playing the files with programs other than WinAmp.

 

You might give VLC Media Player a whirl, just to see...

 

just tried wmp on my windows partition, here is the error:

"the file you are attempting to play has an extension that does not match the file format. Playing the file may result in unexpected behavior."

and, its not the process that i used to rip the songs, because song1 from CD1 works, but song2 from CD1 does not work.

 

I've come across some pretty bad mp3 players (and by that I mean the mp3 decoders) and they have had the maddening behaviour that you describe of working with one track but not another. It has either been due to something about the id tag or certain bit rate frame sizes (in vbr format mp3 files). (I've also had players that couldn't cope with the highest ogg vorbis bit rates, but that's not relevant here).

Work with a copy of your mp3 files.
Try removing the id tag.
If that doesn't help, you'll have to convert the mp3 to a different bit rate or change from VBR to CBR. LAME can take an mp3 file as the input, so you'll be able to convert them whilst you wait for your original CDs to be returned. The only way to know if decoding and then reencoding an mp3 is going to result in artifacts that you can hear is by trying it. It depends on your hearing and the environment (e.g. your car) on whether you going to be able to detect any additional loss of quality (mp3 artifacts) by decoding/reencoding as compared with recoding from re-ripping from the original).

BTW there are some mp3 checker type programs that purport to detect faults in mp3 files.