Program to find damaged files (Windows 10)?
I was just listening to a song (MP3 file) and noticed that it was corrupted at 0:55 min. I can't describe it exactly, but you can clearly hear that the music file is damaged. My problem now is that I have 1065 songs on my laptop and I can't listen to all of them to find more faulty music files (otherwise it would take about 80 hours). So I need a program that can find these faulty files. I DO NOT want to fix the files, just find them.
By the way, I have an SSD hard drive.
Google is your friend.
https://www.pcwelt.de/...17499.html
I don't know of any program that "listens" to your song collection and searches for inconsistencies. You have to do that yourself. If you have suspects, a visual inspection is much faster. Here e.g. A song opened in Ocenaudio
Interruptions, background noises, long, silent passages immediately catch the eye.
But since MrRipley has found something suitable, I take everything back and now claim the opposite.
You haven't yet explained what you consider "damaged". "You can hear it clearly" is too imprecise. It could be an overload, a click, the lack of individual tracks, uneven gain values, or errors in the MP3 data stream itself, which are automatically filled differently depending on the playback program. There can't be a program that basically finds everything that you describe as "damaged".
So what exactly do you call "flawed"?
Unfortunately, I have no idea about it. Here is the file:
https://drive.google.com/...sp=sharing
Just listen at 0:53 to 1:02. I hope you don't get an earache from Madonna Music. Personally, I don't like the song very much, but I still own it because it belongs to Madonna's album "True Blue" and I want all of Madonna's albums to be completely on my laptop and "error-free".
The fault lies in my opinion. In the fact that the data flow was briefly interrupted when compiling into an MP3 file because the CD jumped (possibly dirt on the data carrier or a hole in the film) or when copying YT or similar. The computer was overloaded (e.g. Insufficient memory).
Such errors can't be found with any program, since "silence" is only a quality of music. If one wanted to sort out all pieces with this characteristic, 50% of all recordings would be lost forever. In addition, the music pieces usually begin and end. With silence anyway. How should a program differentiate between what is wanted and what is an error?
Well, the files actually only consist of some numbers that the computer adds up and I thought that there might be a program that can analyze such damaged data / numbers.
Nope, it's not that simple. At a sample rate of 44.1 kHz, all
22.68 µs the amplitude is evaluated and assigned a numerical value. The numerical value can be from 0 to 65,536 (16-bit resolution). 44,100 individual values result in 1 second of music. The calculator does not care why a value is present and how high or low it is.
Note: computers are not stupid - they are arrogant. Because they know everything better.
Ah, okay, a total dropout, in which there's no signal at all for many frames and then a small incorrect synchronization.
It's hard to tell because there's real silence in some pieces. You can avoid this by ripping the CDs with ExactAudioCopy, because it compares the checksums of the pieces with databases on the Internet, tries dozens of times to read the CD anyway if there are scratches and warns if that doesn't work.
It's difficult in retrospect.
I think professionals have such a program, but you can probably buy a new car with an electric drive.
Then rather work through a handful of files every day.
