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Software to scan MP3 files for bad ones without having to play each

Asked by BillDL in Digital Music and Video

Tags: Corrupt MP3s, skipping

Hello Experts

I know that's a strange question title, so let me explain what I mean by "bad".

I'm not sure when or how it happened, but the odd MP3 file I have stored on hard drive now plays back as though it is an old vinyl record with scratches, or an Audio CD with fingerprints, and it skips. I have a feeling that this happened when I used a Data Recovery program to recover files from a non-bootable drive, and because I had some files duplicated in various folders I never noticed that some of them are messed up.

These MP3s were "ripped" from CDs, and played perfectly before I had to recover data from the failed hard drive, so I am not asking about MP3 ripping software in this question. I've used various methods all with great success over the years.

What I am wondering about is if anybody knows of a software utility (preferably Freeware or Open Source) that would be able to scan a number of audio files and detect whatever the corruption is that is causing the odd file to skip in playback. I'm not talking about a lot of "bad" MP3s, but I do have a lot of MP3 files that I would have to play through and listen to to find the bad ones. I would estimate that I have recently encountered 8 bad ones in about 300 that I burned to an MP3 CD.

It's not the playback that's doing this. These few MP3 files have become corrupt. They play back with the same skips when burned to audio CD, as *.mp3 to an mp3 CD, or played in Media Player or hand held MP3 Players.

If I can somehow identify the bad ones, then I can re-rip those individual tracks and replace the bad ones, but I don't have the time to listen to all of my files. I can upload a small extract from an affected MP3 file for any interested expert to listen to or analyse, but I'm not sure about the copyright issues in so doing ;-)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Bill

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Software to scan MP3 files for bad ones without having to play each

Asked by BillDL in Digital Music and Video

Tags: Corrupt MP3s, skipping

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