Hi

I have about 4000 mp3 files and have noticed that when I play some of them in Windows Media Player it flags them as unreadable (with the red exclamation mark) this is because the mp3 tag is corrupted some how. If I go into the file, I find a large number of square signs written into the comment field. If I delete the comment field and save, the file will then play fine in WMP.

As I dont want to go through every file, is there any tool that I can run that will identify which files have damaged tags, and preferably fix them?

I tried running mp3tag at my mp3 root directory but it crashes after about 700+ files

Thanks in advance

Maybe foobar2000 doesn't. Since it can't distinguish the damaged files from the working ones you have to add all MP3 files to the playlist, select them and choose to "Rewrite File Tags" in the "Tagging" options of the right-click dropdown menu. If that crashes foobar2000 as well, try selecting all files at once and delete their comment fields (foobar supports masstagging), followed by a rewrite to ensure that the tags are entirely fixed.