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SavannahLion:
Is there a way to batch analyze MP3's for corrupted or incomplete files?
I've got two almost identical directories of MP3's but they're both in such a state of disarray. It's not even a simple matter of merging the two directories since I really don't have any idea which MP3's are good and which are obviously corrupted. I'm also not interested in listening to each and every MP3 or manually examining the files just to figure it out.
I'm not looking to fix them. If they're corrupt, they're corrupt. I just don't want to merge either of these directories into my primary library and risk corrupting perfectly good files or having to spend months weeding out the bad files as I come across them.
crashwg:
While it won't tell you which files are corrupt, DupFinder will give you a list of all the files that exist in both directories.
I don't believe it does a bit for bit comparison of the files though so. Matter of fact, I don't really know what it is that it uses for comparison. For the final "are these files exactly the same" I use Beyond Compare 2. They're actually up to BC3, but I know you can find BC2 for free on the interwebs.
The reason I use both programs is that BC, as far as I know, only compares one folder to another and not something like file A in folder A to file B in folder B within folder C. < Did that make sense?
stace:
Never tried it myself but give this a go...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/MP3-Checker.shtml
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: crashwg on September 28, 2009, 03:30:26 pm ---While it won't tell you which files are corrupt, DupFinder will give you a list of all the files that exist in both directories.
--- End quote ---
Sounds like diff and Diff3 unless there's something I'm missing. So I've got that covered. :)
--- Quote ---For the final "are these files exactly the same" I use Beyond Compare 2. They're actually up to BC3, but I know you can find BC2 for free on the interwebs.
The reason I use both programs is that BC, as far as I know, only compares one folder to another and not something like file A in folder A to file B in folder B within folder C. < Did that make sense?
--- End quote ---
It does. Sounds interesting too. I was going to wrap diff in Perl and get some similar functionality out of that. BC might be worth looking into. It'll save me the hassle of three human weeks worth of debugging for five minutes of CPU processing.
--- Quote from: stace on September 28, 2009, 03:33:22 pm ---Never tried it myself but give this a go...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/MP3-Checker.shtml
--- End quote ---
Sounds about what I'm looking for. Not sure if I want to deal with the ads though. I'll check into it.
Xiaou2:
Try running "Spinrite" on your drive, selecting the recover/repair option. Its possible the
Hard disk area where the files are located got corrupted, and Spinrite may be able to
repair it.
I found a few photos of mine were completely missing.. and after spinrite was ran,
they were back where they were supposed to be, fully in tact.
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