MP3 Validator for Mac OS X

This worked brilliantly, I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.4
Thanks very much!

Finally i can repair all my damaged mp3 files.

Remember this "NEVER USE ITUNES FOR GET COVERS"

Thank you for this APP. I Love it, i will recommend on my page ;)

Worked great right away!
I am running 10.6.4.

I downloaded the app to my computer and it didn't work at all.....I was just wondering how you would fix that. I have a brand new macbook pro just bought a few weeks ago

I found a link to this page from http://trevinchow.com/blog/2008/09/17/fix-for-mp3-songs-not-playing-in-itunes/ which offers tips for the same problem on Windows. (The excellent freeware app called MP3 Validator available here)

I am absolutely convinced that it is iTunes itself which is screwing up the files - on both platforms - because I have experienced files working fine, which suddenly stop playing after I have edited the metadata in iTunes, and having never touched those same files with any other app.

It would be interesting to find out exactly how iTunes is screwing up. I am sure Apple would love to get *that* bug report.

On my Mac I just gave up ever getting my beloved Platters 8 disc box set rip to work properly. On Windows, it's too easy to discover that 'broken' mp3 files work just fine with Windows media player. I don't much like Windows media player, but it seems to be less prone to problems than iTunes.

So.. looking for a solution for the windows side (which worked, btw) led me here to the Mac equivalent, and lo! my Platters box set now plays perfectly. Now I am tempted to scan my entire library, except for the fact that it is absolutely enormous. I think I will just keep the utility around, in case there are any further problems of this sort.

Works great to get files into iTunes that previously wouldn't play. Thanks a million!

But when the file shows up the tags for title and artist are cut down to about 25 characters. This truncating cannot be necessary to get the file to play because I have a bunch of files with longer tags that import and play just fine. Any help for disabling this truncating in Scan and Repair is greatly appreciated.

Rich

I was looking for a program like that because I couldn't import some files in Itunes for nothing. Files were playing good from finder and other apps but not in Itunes.

I managed to get them to work with Itunes after running MP3 Scan and Repair but i noticed some tags and even filenames getting lost and or even chopped off .... not quite sure if that is normal? (maybe part of the initial problem? so got chopped by your utility? just a though there.)

On a second thought Does this software affects MP3 playback in any way? I got too much legally bought music and treat it like a baby! Any special care advices to ensure quality aint gonna be affected in any way...?

Nice Program overall Cheers !!!

Christian,

thanks, a very useful app.

I have been using it to clean up my wife's library which i have copied off her ipod onto a PC then moved over to my mac. I have run your app and there are still 10% of the files that won't import into itunes even after i have repaired them. the problem is that i can't tell which these files are. The files retrieved from the ipod are all mp3 or aac with the four letter ipod name. Have you any thoughts as to how i can isolate the troublesome 10% then perhaps I'll have a chance of figuring out why they won't import?

Question? Does the app work with any other file formats or is the problem unique to MP3s?

Observation: when i select the itunes library folder the app treats the sub folders as files with errors. The fact that they are listed seems like a mistake and certainly causes problems when choosing what files to select.

thanks

John

I was getting so frustrated trying to import my music. Thank you so much for a quick and easy fix :)

Fantastic - been trying to back up friends Macbook - timecapsule crash till found erroneous files using this - all tickety boo now many Thanks

It worked like a charm! I was trying too many ways to import some songs into iTunes but none would work. And then, after I used this app, everything is fine!

THANK YOU!

Hey Christian- I'm having some difficulty retrieving my music files since they were transferred onto my new computer from my fried laptop. When I drop my mp3's into the program, it says "ERROR: unknown file format". Am I doing something wrong, or do you think maybe the files got all wonky in the transfer process?

Only one word: Thank!!!
Grazie!!!

Vielen Dank! Dieses ding ist Super, aber meine Deutsch ist ein bisschen schwer. ;)

Many thanks! This thing did the trick! One song in my library (at this point) that wouldn't play in iTunes but played in absolutely everything else is now fixed and playing. YAY!

WOW.. F***** WOW.. had an album that was wired - wouldn't play in itunes... and with this app it got fixed.. and i didn't even read any manual :)

thanks for the free ride.. i owe a donation asap!

Thank you. You're a lifesaver. I am going to donate ASAP.

Awesome tool, but I've got a suggestion to make it just a bit more useful: have some way to be able to log which files are corrupt. A lot of the files I find that have problems are no longer complete -- they're only a fraction of their original length after being repaired.

I'd like a way to log which files have been fixed, so I can then go and re-rip or re-download them. A text log file would be okay, but another possibility would be creating a "Repaired files" playlist in iTunes.

Just a thought -- thanks for creating this program!

If I'm running Windows 7 how can use this tool?

iTunes refused to add some of my MP3's, this application fixed them in a flash, thank you.

A suggestion, I see others posting about the same issue I had with the application, it wasnt very apparent what I needed to do once I dropped the mp3's into the application. Making a 'wizard' or just making the fix button more noticeable would be a vast improvement.