Posted by dadiOH on 05/30/06 12:45

markjamesdavies@googlemail.com wrote:
> The problem
> =================
> Music lovers that convert their music collections digitally run the
> risk that many of their songs that have defects (I am referring to the
> type of defects that especially disrupts the hearing pleasure).
>
> It is possible to manually identify such poor tracks and attempt to
> re-rip / clean (with mp3 cleaning applications) if you only have an
> album or two. However, finding the defective tracks amongst ones
> lifetime's album collection is a daunting task (it would take several
> weeks of dedicated and methodical manual work).
>
> And so I hold onto my CD collection "just in case" I discover yet
> another defective mp3.
>
> But I'd much rather free up the space in my flat if I had the quality
> assurance of my collection (and I'd get brownie points from the missus
> too :> ).
>
> The solution ?
> =================
> An application that analyzes mp3s for defects and produces a report of
> the defective tracks (with details such a path and the location within
> tracks of the suspected defect).

Numerous exist to do that. However, they are dealing with structural errors
and those don't necessarily affect how the files sound. To do what you want
you need to either...

1. rip them without errors in the first place
-OR -
2. listen to each individually and fix the bad ones.

The first option is better and lots faster.



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