I found this in a previous post after searching for "bad mp3" :
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"It does sound like you have got an mp3 file on there which is upsetting the player - that's the usual explaination for a lock.
Clear the playlist:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 bs=512 count=1
Get it to ignore the current state:
/empeg/bin/player -i
...and it should run again. Connect with emplode and remove the offending song. If you have a copy of it, support would probably like it so we can ensure that 2.0 (which already has better rejection of corrupt/damaged files) deals with it correctly.
Hugo "
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I'm don't know how to do this though. Please help!