Hello everyone.

Recently my hard drive started giving me CRC errors with programs that I handle my music with. It resulted in a good chunk of my music being corrupted and me having to replace it. Anyways, I still have not checked some of the mp3/aac files in my itunes for corruption. What is the best tool/program to do this with?

Anyone? Please? Sorry if this is being posted in the wrong section.

foobar2000

right click > utils > verify integrity

MP3val is a tool for MPEG audio files validation and (optionally) fixing problems. It can be useful for finding corrupted files (e.g. incompletely downloaded). MP3 decoders are very tolerant to inconsistencies in the input file. Most players even don't report to user about stream errors. So, as a rule, user doesn't know whether his files are valid or broken. But using broken files can eventually lead to problems during playback on certain software/hardware.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Mp3val

Truncated MP3 or AAC files can't be reliably detected, because the stream consists of discrete frames that can go on forever. The total length of an Mp3 is recorded in the Xing frame, but not all files have (correct) VBR frame. The program might report unrecognized data at the end, but the data might as well be an unsupported tag format (duplicate ID3, Lyrics).

I don't know about mp3val? I tried it once and it showed an error on every file where I had ever modified the tag. All encoded with LAME 3.97 and the only editors I use are Winamp and mp3tag.