I've been using this amazing program alongside MusicBee for a while and thought I would share. You would never know which MP3s are damaged because most players (like MusicBee) will do their best to play them anyway.
MP3 Diags is free, open source, and cross platform, and it can batch find and repair an entire library of MP3s at one time.
Here's some of what it does:
- broken tags / headers / audio
- duplicate tags / headers
- incorrect placement of tags / headers (ID3V2, ID3V1, LAME, Xing, ...)
- missing VBR header
- missing track info / cover art
- broken track info / cover art
- show files with missing normalization data
- character encoding issues (for languages other than English)
- Correcting files that show incorrect song duration
- Correcting files in which the player cannot seek correctly
- Converting characters for non-English names
- Adding composer name to the artist field, for players that don't handle the composer field
It can even re-encode the VBR data for files that were split, damaged, or encoded by older codecs. Ever had an MP3 that skips? One of my favorite features was it's ability to repair issues with tags and embedded images. I've seen it used on tens or thousands of MP3s (personal, friends, family, coworkers, etc) and never once did it destroy or corrupt a single file. It's pretty amazing.
You can download it here:
http://mp3diags.sourceforge.netYou're welcome.
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