MP3-Check examines your music collection, tells you what's wrong with it

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MP3-Check examines your music collection, tells you what's wrong with it

by Brad Linder May 18th 2008

Got a few thousand MP3s in your music collection with missing or incorrect ID3 tags? MP3-Check won't fix them for you, but it will let you know what's missing. It's a light weight utility that can process large amounts of information quickly and let you know if your MP3 files:

Are missing ID3 tags
Don't meet your bit rate or sample rate requirements
Are stereo or mono
Meet a specified volume threshold

MP3-Check also lets you choose third party tools to associate with the program so that, for example, when you find an MP3 with no ID3 information you can right click on it to launch your favorite ID3 tag editor. If your ID3 tags aren't just missing, but are actually wrong, you might want to check out a tool like MusicBrainz which will compare your files with an online database and try to find the correct metadata.

[via GHacks]

Tags: id3, mp3, mp3-check, music

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

iambored8907 said 11:39AM on 5-18-2008

What ever happened to the TuneUp invites?

Robert said 7:16PM on 5-18-2008

Indeed, Did any one get any?

neonez said 11:40AM on 5-18-2008

Its a shame that it doesn't tell you that your music is just bad.

kingkool68 said 12:43PM on 5-19-2008

MediaMonkey can do the same thing by filtering out bad ID3 tags into missing artist, missing album, missing genre, etc. and then lets you fix them using Amazon.

To hell with these frivolous 3rd party tools. All I need is MediaMonkey and MusicBrainz Picard.

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