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add to Fix mp3 vbr headder

Is there a way for the function "Fix MP3 VBR Header" to have the option to only re-write the mp3 file if significant errors are found (and choose those errors); furthermore, is there a way to have said function give the user the option to only rewrite the file if the total time has changed more than a x number of seconds? If not, will you please add these options?

Disclaimer: I have searched and could not find if someone has asked these questions about said functions in foobar2000 and/or requested these actions. If they have, please forgive me as the above search engine did not give me a definitive answer.

Thanks in advance and thanks to all who has brought us foobar2000 and it's superior flexibility.

add to Fix mp3 vbr headder

Reply #1 –
foo_verifier can tell you when some files have errors without actually modifying them. http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_verifier

just note what it says on that page....

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Note that with most formats, its accuracy is limited to detecting errors that abort the decoding process.
 

add to Fix mp3 vbr headder

Reply #2 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
foo_verifier can tell you when some files have errors without actually modifying them. http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_verifier

just note what it says on that page....

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Note that with most formats, its accuracy is limited to detecting errors that abort the decoding process.



Thank you so much for your succinct and kind reply.

I did a test run on a 20 songs. 10 of which were from the same CD yet reporting to be between 20 and 40 minutes each. It caught the problems. My excitement was quickly muted when I noticed the unfortunate facts: There is no way to exclude errors as small as 1/100th of a second in "Reported length". There is no option to hand the errors to an appropriate tool/function like "Fix MP3 VBR header". Most importantly, there a way to exclude "OK" files from the exported text file, so creating a m3u containing only the errors is out of the question. These things combined with the shear volume of files I want to check makes it unusable in my circumstances.

Thank you very much for your reply. The tool does have merit when used on a small scale.