Audio weirdness - My mp3's are acting doing the impossible

[SYNTuesday]

Ok, guys... weirdest shit ever. Years, no problems with my mp3s... some months back, the player randomly gets to Yellow Submarine... and after about 45 seconds, it hits me,... "Hey, THERES NO WORDS!" I remember this song having words! I click around to test some other songs... they all work, then I notice that Eleanor Rigby is also playing weird. The opening "Aaaah, look at all the lonely people" lines are fine, then "Eleanor Ri--" drops off to nothing, then its just music until we get to the chorus again. WEIRD.

I found about a month ago that everything was back to normal, and then today, again. If I turn up the volume really high I can still kinda make out the words at a whisper... more weird. No other songs are affected,... I tried converting them to wav's just to see what happened, and no change. HOW is this possible? And moreover, what can I do? Anyone have this happen? A virus that attacks Beatles songs? :hrug:: (Sorry about double posting if anyone reads YMB.net)

[Hybrid]

yea i heard about that virus thats goin after only beatles songs. you should probably reformat your harddrive.

[QuickStop]

check your equalizer. make sure the center channels arent turned all the way down.

[Goatweed]

why not try to download the song again and see if it happens?

[Galt]

Kill your parents.

[SYNTuesday]

Great. I tried all those things, and not a single one ended up helping. Especially the killing my parents bit... you shoulda seen how hard it was to convince the cops to let me use a computer. In any event, I'll be damned, since it turns out the input jack on my subwoofer (which then has a wire running to the speakers) was loose or tight or something, in such a way that the left signal coming out of my sound card was being sent to both of my speakers. A little plug-pushing and everything was fine. Oh well. :2: