Mp3 files the size of 642,062 K/bytes?
 

Has anyone else noticed these mp3 files listed with these sizes?
Is this a bug on one of the gnutella clients? What else can it be?
I can't think anyone is stupid enough to post mp3 files that large, or anyone stupid enough to try and download them.

Maybe someone has put many mp3s togheter somewho. I know there are tools out there that allow you join mpeg files together and make them one big long movie, but I'm not sure if it can be done with mp3s. Another thing might be that it means the number of bytes. Some of the clients I've used tell the number of bytes instead of the KBS

sometimes if someone has ripped a whole cd (such as a live or mixed set) you will get these large files.

sometimes if someone has ripped a whole cd (such as a live or mixed set) you will get these large files.

maybe a throwback to the old Napster days... people who still have files done in Wrapster... just a thought...

Also
 

Like as said above, live concerts and such may be posted. The most bizzare thing I saw with a large file size is someone who put about 2 hours worth of music in 1 file. But, instead of coding them at 56 kb/s, they encoded them at something like 960 kb/s, which I wasn't even aware was possible! It ended up being over a hundered megs, but that still is rediculous (however you spell it :)). Mostly though what it is is people putting Warez on their harddrives such as microsoft_office.zip.mp3. That is what I see at least. What are some of the names of these files? Just curious. I haven't been able to connect to Limewire lately, as I am working on a way around firewalls for it :).

It's just that these appears to be separate music files like:
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the heart,
Wham - Wake me up before you go go, etc.

Just do a search for "80's" and several files of this
size will appear.

Strange Files
 

I remember one time whenever I searched with BS for a group or artist it I would get the usual results and then sometimes a huge file (don't remember how big but > 1gB) named something like:
"artist".exe w/o the quotes

and it was many artists/groups (I think I did Taproot, RATM, Weezer)

I didn't check to see if they were all coming from the same server though...

Yes, I've seen several files with laughably huge file sizes, but only within the past few days. My guess is that some people have written their own homebrewed gnutella clients, and there's a bug there that mis-reports the file size.

Joining MP3's
 

MPEG Audio Scissors and Goldwave will let you join files. I still haven't figured out Audio Scissors

PS: Anyone know why my help option is grey out.