[microsound] Flash device bringing music back from the dead

[Alex Young <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought this might be of interest to a few people on this list:  My 
friend has a flash MP3 player, and he's found that some 'broken' MP3s 
caused the player to play chunks of old MP3s that he's deleted.  I 
assume this is because the filesystem on the memory device just 
allocates deleted chunks to be overwritten, so it never actually 
deletes the data.  I think the fact deleted MP3s were coming back from 
the dead surprised him somewhat!

I didn't realise corrupted MP3s could cause this kind of behaviour.  
I'm not exactly sure if this is limited to the software on his MP3 
player or not.  This is the player he uses:

http://extremetech.shopping.com/xPF-Hyun_Won_DAH1000_512MB

Has anyone experienced this with other music devices?

Thanks,

Alex

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