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mp3 correction without recompression???????????
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mp3 correction without recompression???????????

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Scratch Live
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djdsk 10:19 AM - 3 January, 2005
Im stillusing Ashampoo nut have also tried a coupleof programs that dont recompress nut chopoff the start of the mp3 but none of them corrected the errors found by ashampoo .

Has anyone had any luck with any of the programs that dont recompress to correct errors , and get through the ashampoo check OK?

Thanks
Diva 11:27 AM - 3 January, 2005
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nut chopoff


...sounds nasty!! (lol) ;)
djdsk 12:52 PM - 3 January, 2005
ha ha
chubbsta 2:42 PM - 3 January, 2005
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nut chopoff

Sounds painful, if you ask me ;-)
nik39 3:20 PM - 3 January, 2005
rotfl :-)
dj synystr 6:26 PM - 3 January, 2005
i used that ashampoo and it said i had currupt files so i moved them to a folder. then i reencoded them with ashampoo and checked them. They were all not ook again. did i do somethign wrong?
djjb 1:31 AM - 4 January, 2005
Check out Helium - www.helium2.com (Win platform only). Primarily a tagging program, but it has a pretty good mpeg analyzer and can fix some (but not all) file corruptions without re-encoding.
djdsk 9:50 AM - 4 January, 2005
thanks mate much appreciated ill give it a go
djdsk 10:27 AM - 4 January, 2005
I tried Helim but files that Ashampoo says are corrupted it says are fine???????????????????

If Helium and other programs say they are ok should i ude them or only trust Ashampoo?????????

Can any one from Serato answer this , is there a rpogram thats results can be trusted with use for serato?
djjb 5:32 PM - 4 January, 2005
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I tried Helim but files that Ashampoo says are corrupted it says are fine?


Funny, my experience has been the opposite. Stuff ashampoo said was good, helium found problems. Wondering if either prog is right, or if there is something better out there for analyzing/fixing corrupt mp3.
Detroitbootybass 7:31 PM - 4 January, 2005
I have files that Ashampoo said were fine, but another program (can't remember the name right now) labeled them as corrupt and vice-versa. Also, Scratch Live identified a group of files as corrupt that got by both of the other programs... hmmm.
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Sam 1:17 AM - 5 January, 2005
The only way to be sure at the moment is to play them in Scratch LIVE - and mix with them in Scratch LIVE. There are many variations in the way MP3s are put together, and how various programs decode them. One thing that is particularly important for Scratch LIVE is that no 'time' is added or removed, because this can ruin a mix. In a normal player, this might not be so important, as a very tiny jump would not be noticed.

We are working on incorporating corrupt MP3 detection into Scratch LIVE.
djdsk 3:23 AM - 5 January, 2005
Thnaks Sam but im just worried about an mp3 making SSL crash , so if the mp3 passes a test of one program and plays ok it shouldnt effect the stability of SSL , is that correct?
earwolf 11:21 AM - 5 January, 2005
sam - is there a way for future ssl versions to batch analyze a folder of mp3's overnight and give them a green flag or whatnot (prolly add an rarely used id tag) to indicate they have passed the necessary checks?