Comment 5 for bug 586174

I am seeing exactly the same bug with the Ubuntu 10.04 banshee package on amd64.

Nearly all (if not really all) MP3s I play have these scratches/squeeks permanently after playing them once in Banshee. The files I tried with are all rippend and encoded (using lame) by myself.

It seems that really the MP3 file itself gets somehow corrupted - it has nothing to do with any equalizer settings. To track down the source of the error, I made a backup of one file before playing it in Banshee. Obviously banshee changes something within the file while playing it

This is the file before playing it in banshee (I made this backup copy just before playing the file):
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 6755509 2010-05-27 22:53 10 - Tiger Of Sabrod.mp3.orig

And this is the file after being played in banshee:
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 6759403 2010-05-27 22:54 10 - Tiger Of Sabrod.mp3

As you easily can see, the file has been changed (new timestamp, different size). I have not(!) activated this "writemeta tag to file" option because in general I don't want my players to change my files. Why does banshee change the file nevertheless and even corrupts it by doing this?

I agree this is a major bug because it can render the whole music collection unusable (if you don't have a backup:) ).