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Unbelievable: nearly all my MP3's are corrupt!

Hi there,

I just ran MP3Utilty and MP3Test on my MP3 files because I'm experiencing some gapless playback problems after decompressing my MP3's to WAV. The result: shocking, absolutely shocking!

I used all original CD's (my own!), I used EAC (setup properly) to rip and LAME 3.92 (with just one switch: --alt-preset standard) to encode them into MP3. Nearly 98% of all my MP3 files show a sync error around the 99% playing time point. I've got about 4500 MP3 files on my laptop and would like to get this fixed. Is there a way (I don't mind an elaborate way!) to fix these sync errors? The thing is, I currently live in Bangkok and all my CD's are stored back home. There's no way I can re-rip my CD's.

For what it's worth: If I had to do it all again, I would definitely go the Vorbis way (gapless by definition, excellent quality, wide-spread support (also for portable MP3 players)).

Thanks for any feedback in advance!

Regards,
Rob

Unbelievable: nearly all my MP3's are corrupt!

Reply #1 –
Simple. MP3Utility doesn't recognize APEv2 tags and reports them as errors.
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Unbelievable: nearly all my MP3's are corrupt!

Reply #2 –
I use MP3Check - it doesn't report unknown tags as errors - I use it a lot
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Unbelievable: nearly all my MP3's are corrupt!

Reply #3 –
I guess that this sync problem in the last few hunderd bytes is a "known" issue with programmes like MP3Test and MP3Utility....

About that MP3Check utility: only version 0.8 supports VBR files (which I have) and the Windows version is only available up to 0.7.3.... too bad, I guess I have to trust MP3Utility missing the APEv2 tags (but there still could be some sync errors?).

Thanks,
Rob