Validate your mp3 collection

Most software mp3 players do not report playback errors which is not such a big problem most of the time. It could however become one when you copy the mp3 to a player, be it software or hardware, that does not play the file because it checked for those errors before playing the mp3.

MP3val checks your mp3 collection for mpeg frame consistency and several other possible issues like the length of the stored VBR header. It is possible to load the entire mp3 collection into MP3val and let the software check all of the mp3 files at once. It does that really fast and either reports a Problem or OK.

The problem is mentioned once you click on the line of the mp3 file in question. A total of 16 different problems can be found by MP3val and it just takes a click of the button to fix all of them. Every fourth mp3 on my computer had a problem which I did fix automatically with the application.

MP3val creates backup files of every mp3 that is fixed by it in case that this process does not complete or deletes information in the file that the user did not want to delete.