MP3 question?: why does it not play most of the songs that i downloaded?

i have a MEMOREX mp3 and i downloaded alot of songs in limewirea nd transfer them to "windows media player" from there i burned them to my mp3. BUt my mp3 does not play all of the songs only certain songs i tried looking at the file name but they are all the same .. and i even tried earsing all songs and transferring again but it doesnot work .. it only plays certain songs ..could it be because i let it drop twice to the ground by accident?

MP3 question?: why does it not play most of the songs that i downloaded?
This is probably a technical issue. MP3 files are encoded in two major ways, constant bit rate (CBR) and variable bit rate (VBR). A lot of MP3 players will not handle VBR files. You can check each file by right-clicking on the file, selecting "Properties", and then the Summary tab. Near the bottom of the list it should show BIT RATE. If that's a single number it's a CBR file. Otherwise it's VBR.
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What it also could be is that the songs are licensed or stuff like that... or maybe just not compatible.