[CentOS] audio file validation tool ?

[Erek Dyskant]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:47 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> I need a command line tool to validate mp3 file(s)....    just something 
> that scans the file and looks for structural errors and reports it.
> 
> background, I've recovered a few 1000 MP3 files off a dying disk drive 
> for a radio station, some of the other files I recovered had several K 
> byte long blocks of zeros splatted in the middle where the dying drive 
> did bad sector remapping (SMART reported 1900+ sectors had been 
> remapped)...    this particular library was the playlist for an internet 
> radio station run as a pet project by the program director of a FM 
> station... said PD passed away from cancer last year, and the station 
> management wants to put this internet station back online as a legacy to 
> her.
> 
> its a very obscure bunch of music, all old 'cowboy' songs.  :)

Have a look at mp3val...http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/