Checking FLAC files in Windows, After Partition Rebuild, Help needed to find errors in large collection |
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Checking FLAC files in Windows, After Partition Rebuild, Help needed to find errors in large collection |
 Jun 25 2006, 01:51
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Group: Members Posts: 317 Joined: 28-November 01 From: South Australia Member No.: 555  |
Howdy,
After doing the most stupid thing in existence and accidently deleting the partition to my External 300gb HD (Through it was a quick delete), that contained my FLAC collection.... I downloaded Steller Phoneix Demo, It found everything on my HD. I brought the program and has allowed me to restore all my FLAC files to another drive. I would like to find a program/way that can check the integrity of my FLAC files, so I know everything is OK/not OK. Anyone know of a way/Program? Cheers 
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Jun 25 2006, 02:50
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Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Denmark Member No.: 20365 |
FLACTester v1.3 : http://www.vuplayer.com/files/flactester.zip
During encoding, then flac.exe by default calculates and stores a MD5 signature of the raw audio data, which later on can be used for verification and integrity checking. The above application can test a whole tree of FLAC files and generate a report afterwards. It does the same thing as flac.exe's -t switch ie. Decoding the FLAC files and recalculating their MD5 signatures of the raw audio data, and then comparing them to the FLAC files internally stored MD5 signatures. |
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Jun 25 2006, 02:53
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Group: Banned Posts: 232 Joined: 20-January 06 Member No.: 27228 |
QUOTE (burgerings @ Jun 24 2006, 18:51)  I would like to find a program/way that can check the integrity of my FLAC files, so I know everything is OK/not OK. Anyone know of a way/Program? Yes, an excellent FLAC file checker GUI for Windows will do a check on each FLAC file for you for errors. See the URL: http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php - Get the FLACTester app. I use it regularly to check my FLAC files for any errors or corruptions that have somehow been introduced. Hope this is what you've been looking for. Edit: I guess Martin H and I both posted about the same time. Anyhow he recommended FLACTester also. Enjoy! This post has been edited by goodnews: Jun 25 2006, 02:54 |
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Jun 25 2006, 03:28
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Group: Members Posts: 830 Joined: 3-November 05 Member No.: 25526 |
You probably could've used testdisk to recover the partition, as long as it wasn't a full format. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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Jun 25 2006, 08:57
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 Group: Super Moderator Posts: 4887 Joined: 12-August 04 From: Exeter, UK Member No.: 16217 |
It sounds like FLACTester is the way to go, but just in case: I have a batch file that works similarly.
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Jun 26 2006, 00:42
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Group: Members Posts: 317 Joined: 28-November 01 From: South Australia Member No.: 555 |
Hey Everyone!
Thanks HEAPS for the program and expecially to Firon for letting me know about TestDisk...I ended up taking a risk and stopping Steller and running TestDisk..It rebuilt my drive and there was not a single error after ScanDisk and not a single error (accoriding to FLACTester) in my 200gb of FLAC music! I am so happy...Going to buy another external drive to backit up now. Cheers everyone! |
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