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Topic: Decoding failure at 0:00.000 (Unsupported format or corrupted file) (Read 3723 times) previous topic - next topic
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Decoding failure at 0:00.000 (Unsupported format or corrupted file)

Okay.  So I have a bunch of the band STS9 on my comp.  I have a few versions of the song 'This, Us'.  I get that error when I attempt to play TWO of the versions, but the rest work fine!  They are all from different shows. The rest of the shows the troubled files are from work fine.    These files play with windows media player.  What's the problem?

EDIT:  I converted the file with itunes and it now plays in Foobar.  Wonder what the problem was...  Such an odd situation.

Decoding failure at 0:00.000 (Unsupported format or corrupted file)

Reply #1 –
The files may have some kind of corruption but, you needed to state the file format.

If you still have them and you have a full foobar install then run Verify Integrity on them and see what the report is.
Select the the file then right click on them and go Utils > Verify Integrity

If the files are mp3:
Many reported errors can be fixed by then running Utils > Fix VBR MP3 Header...  and then also if needed Utils > Rebuild MP3 Stream

I have found these Utils to be very stable. Fixing a few files and huge numbers of files with complete success.