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Music Resources for congregational and small group singing. Audio MP3 files, midi files, PDF scores and lyrics available.

Public Domain music can be downloaded freely. Copyright music requires a small copyright fee.

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Zip file 'corruption'
Windows media player says the file is 'corrupt'
In the past when I looked at files that were being reported by windows media player 'as corrupt', there has been nothing wrong with the file. The problem is more in the changes that have occurred in the structure of the ZIP file and the defaults that come with Vista and Win 7.

What the problem really is.
The problem is that a few years back, the default for the ZIP creation program changed to include the directory structure of the computer which was creating the ZIP files. So in my ZIP files, you get the directory structure of the Host Server. The result of this is, that when you 'unzip' the file, you get all these unwanted (and meaningless) directories and sub-directories.

The problem comes with Windows, and the newer versions default the ZIP files to be played on Windows Media player. This used to work OK when there was no directory structure in the ZIP files (in the good old days), but Windows Media cannot handle the directory structure, and so gives a message 'Corrupt file'.

The solution
The solution to the problem is to UNZIP the ZIP file, and then use the MP3 files you get from the UNZIPPING process in Windows Media player (or even more simply, download the MP3 files from the site).
Microsoft used to have a 'UNZIP' function that appeared on the drop down menu if you 'right click', but now the words 'Extract all…' appear, provided you have your system configured correctly.
The default for Windows is now to have ZIP files being opened by windows media player. You need to change this. The instructions to do this are in the Windows help, and you type in 'unzip'. This will give you an article called '1. Compress and uncompress files (zip files)'. You will find the article virtually 'unintelligible'.

The steps to follow are:

Right click on the ZIP file. This will bring up a 'drop down' menu.
Click on 'properties' (last entry in the menu).
You should get something like:
After you make this change, go back to the ZIP file, and right click on it. From now on, when you do this to a ZIP file, you will get a new entry in the drop down menu, eg:

(Note the 'Extract all… ' line.) This is the 'unzip function'. Click on that, and you will be able to extract the MP3 files from the zip file, and that should work fine in Windows Media player.

All sounds a bit complicated, but once the above setup is done, it work reasonably well, just by double left clicking on the file.

The alternative is to download the MP3 file from the site.

(March, 2012)