Hello,

I had a disk failure and some of my audio files got lost or corrupted. I used foobar2000 to scan my whole library to find out which files are missing.

I got plenty of errors regarding incorrect length and stream errors like this:

Is there anything I can do to fix these errors? Do I have to care about the length errors at all?

May I ask how you did the scan?

I am in a similar situation with a failing disk (it actually started reporting read errors during a backup operation so I fear it may have corrupted my backup too).

Apologies for not having any useful advice.

Right click on a playlist entry you want to fix and choose "File Operations > Rebuild MP3 Stream". That might work. Make a backup of whatever file you test it on first however.

Hopefully that helps, and good luck!

Rebuilding the MP3 stream might make the error message go away but your MP3 file is still most likely missing some of its original content, there's nothing you can do about it other than re-ripping or re-downloading offending files.
Length mismatch errors are nothing to worry about unless they're as bad as several seconds or worse; those can be dealt with using the "Fix VBR MP3 Header" menu command.

Are you sure that all those files were free of errors before the hard disk failure?

retro83> It's unther the right click menu: Utils -> Verify Integrity.

foosion> No, I'm not sure the files were error free before. I tried to play some of the files which reported errors. On some of them there were some sound problems (short clicks or noise) on other files I couldn't hear anything wrong.

The reported incorrect length was off usually only by few miliseconds, so I guess I don't have to worry about it.

Thanks guys for your replies!

Thanks
I don't have that option on my copy of Foobar 0.9.5.2, but I managed to fix my drive with the infamous freezing technique for long enough to rescue the files onto another disk.