Full Version: Verifying mp3's
Is there a program that can check to make sure that there are no errors in your mp3's? Something similar to the test feature of flac files.
Encspot can check for synch errors. Make sure you set it to scan your whole MP3 (the default I think is first 1000 frames),
QUOTE(Marino13 @ Aug 20 2004, 06:34 PM)
Is there a program that can check to make sure that there are no errors in your mp3's? Something similar to the test feature of flac files.
Encspot is a really nice tool. There are other tools to check mp3s too, but most of them have no GUI so You have to use them in a DOS box...To 'test' flac files, there is a program called 'metaflac.exe' (for DOS box too) that reports some file characteristics. This tool is part of the official flac distribution package.
A better way to test flac files is use the flac en-/decoder itself with: flac.exe -t example.flac
used to be a program called mp3check, don't know if it exists anymore, or was even any good.
mp3trim can also report bad (broken) frames when opening .mp3 files... and usually correct it.
mp3check still exists and indeed it brings much more possibilities to interact although it has no 'beloved' (...) GUI.
Maybe you still can find it on the mp3check homepage. Well mostly the site seems to be down
. Is there a new site? - I only have the Win32 version ...
Another GUI-less tool i very like is mp3guessEnc from Naoki Shibata (if you ever have used Lame in verbose mode, you will know this name
). It tries to guess the encoder, moreover it shows a lot of very interessting information.
This tool was thought as reference code as Mr. Shibata wrote me once (seems too be a big honor
). So I have continued to make my own compilation i called 'mp3geVis' to get a more readable output. Please note, i don't understand very much of C/C++ and it would be nice if some one could spend some minutes on the code once, the improvements must be evident...
So when using my very alpha-alpha version see what can happen:
- Your PC explode
- Your appartment burns down
- Your stocks lose immediately all its values.
- Your girl-friend will leave you
- Your dog gets infidel an looks for another master
...
Known 'bugs':
- By any reason it has the same functionality like the origin mp3guessEnc and shows now mp3 characteristics with a 'prettier display'.
- The tool is still not very 'bullet-proof' at some strange sync errors.
- I have removed (sorry) the very limited IDtag v2 support because i haven't seen a solution to expand this.
- There is a twin compilation called 'mp3gePHP'. Only use it when you know what PHP is and how to include programs there.
- Both of my compilation may create a frame log with frame size and frame position. With some fantasy it is able to create a temporal frame scan out of this. Very nice specially at vbr mp3 files.
Maybe you still can find it on the mp3check homepage. Well mostly the site seems to be down
. Is there a new site? - I only have the Win32 version ...Another GUI-less tool i very like is mp3guessEnc from Naoki Shibata (if you ever have used Lame in verbose mode, you will know this name
). It tries to guess the encoder, moreover it shows a lot of very interessting information.This tool was thought as reference code as Mr. Shibata wrote me once (seems too be a big honor
). So I have continued to make my own compilation i called 'mp3geVis' to get a more readable output. Please note, i don't understand very much of C/C++ and it would be nice if some one could spend some minutes on the code once, the improvements must be evident...So when using my very alpha-alpha version see what can happen:
- Your PC explode
- Your appartment burns down
- Your stocks lose immediately all its values.
- Your girl-friend will leave you
- Your dog gets infidel an looks for another master
...
Known 'bugs':
- By any reason it has the same functionality like the origin mp3guessEnc and shows now mp3 characteristics with a 'prettier display'.
- The tool is still not very 'bullet-proof' at some strange sync errors.
- I have removed (sorry) the very limited IDtag v2 support because i haven't seen a solution to expand this.
- There is a twin compilation called 'mp3gePHP'. Only use it when you know what PHP is and how to include programs there.
- Both of my compilation may create a frame log with frame size and frame position. With some fantasy it is able to create a temporal frame scan out of this. Very nice specially at vbr mp3 files.
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