Have you ever wondered just how messed up your audio files are? Audio File Health Check scans your audio files and reports on the errors encountered. The application will analyze ape, aif, aifc, aiff, dff, dsf, flac, oga, ogg, opus, mp2, mp3, m4a (AAC, ALAC), m4b (AAC, ALAC), mp4 (AAC, ALAC, video), m4v, wav and wv files. Note that when reading ID3 v2.2 and ID3 v2.3 tags, they are converted to ID3v2.4 before post loading analysis begins.
Various options can be set in the application preferences.
Choose a name and location for the log file, drag over files and/or folders to the target (one or more times) and then hit Start. A deep scan is made in all folders so it is possible to analyze your entire collection at once.
The log file describes a file as:
[modification date of the file] [full path to filename]
Each logged item has the following format:
[file offset] [type] [reason]
The type field is one of the following:
- File
- An error occurred while reading the file.
- Fatal
- An error was found in the file structure which made it impossible to continue reading the file.
- Container
- An error was found in the structure of the file.
- Frame
- A format error was found within the portion of the file describing the tag content.
- Tag
- An out of spec item was found in a tag.
- Privacy
- There is a good chance the file contains your name or email address. Display of these items must be enabled in the application preferences.
- Rename(mp3)
- Some mp3 files incorrectly have a .m4a filename extension.
We hope you find the application useful and that you'll consider using Yate to fix most of the issues.
For instructions on how to download, install and run a Yate action to repair the files, click here.