[CentOS] audio file validation tool ?
Erek Dyskant
erek at blumenthals.com
Thu Mar 6 21:54:59 UTC 2008
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/
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