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    iTunes library verification; fixing unplayable mp3 files

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by exi, Jul 16, 2010.

  1. exi

    exi Notebook Evangelist

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    I've recently clean installed OS X and used my TM backups to restore everything.

    I've noticed a few corrupt files -- two PDFs and a handful of MP3s thus far -- which makes me wonder what else is corrupted that I haven't noticed. (oh, and eta: I'm finding more PDFs that cannot be opened. And they are important PDFs. This is not ****ing good.)

    I found a good copy of one PDF in Time Machine. The other, no luck.

    The MP3s on one album I noticed was unplayable: they don't play in iTunes, they don't preview/play in Finder, and I went back to the first day they were backed up in TM months ago -- restoring from there didn't help. I've got many thousands of files in iTunes, all meticulously tagged, so this sort of garbage is absolutely not okay.

    So, two things:

    1. Is there any way I can quickly find out if I've got more unusable PDFs or other docs, or other MP3s, hanging out on this drive?

    2. How might I go about getting those "damaged" files to work, short of re-downloading / re-ripping / re-whatevering them?

    Permissions were fixed last night, the disk was verified and checked out okay, and I did a disk verification of the HD in my Time Capsule on which my backups via TM are stored. No glaring problems.
     
    exi, Jul 16, 2010
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