Batch Converter has possible MP3 corruption.
When converting some 1500 flac files to mp3 (my car won't play flac) it seems that a number (2 found so far) seem to have been corrupted in that part of 1 file has been included into another. For example the Blue Jays track "Nights Winters Years" when played as mp3 has parts of a Rolling Stones Hot Rocks track in it.
The tracks are fine as flac and only corrupted after the Batch Conversion. Unfortunately the mp3 is too big to attach (6.81MB).
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To which kind of storage did you convert to?
Dat Ei
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[QUOTE=Dat Ei;193797]To which kind of storage did you convert to?[/QUOTE]
... and please can you supply more information on your system e.g. platform/OS, software versions etc.
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I can say with a certainty that it is impossible for the converter to do this by way of a bug, that is because the actual conversion engine 'Core Converter' is only told of a single source file and single destination file.
The only way this can happen is if you have a HDD corruption and 2 files are mixed as one in the file system.
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[QUOTE=mville;193798]... and please can you supply more information on your system e.g. platform/OS, software versions etc.[/QUOTE]
Win 10 (64) + all current MS updates. Intel i7-6700K; 16GB Ram; 10TB HDs.
dBpoweramp 16.6 (64)
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No known HDD corruptions, all 3 HDDs checked & ok, corruption is only after the flac to mp3 conversion, nowhere else.
The corrupted mp3 files have the different tracks interwoven: a section of Blue Jays' Nights Winters Years the some of the Stones track, then more Blue Jays, then more Stones. Cleanly interwoven, but sounds very odd.
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In Windows safe mode, are you able to convert the same files to C:\Test folder, without any corruption?
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Also after more than 30years programming "impossible" is a word I stopped using!
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I'll give this a try, although I can't think of a scenario where Safe mode would help.
This will take some time, and I'll have to listen to 1500 tracks to hear if any are corrupted.....
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[QUOTE=JeremyDrew;193838]I'll give this a try, although I can't think of a scenario where Safe mode would help.
This will take some time, and I'll have to listen to 1500 tracks to hear if any are corrupted.....[/QUOTE]
So, how did you originally find that the mp3 files were corrupted?
Are you now suggesting that the Batch Conversion might not be the culprit here?
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Hi,
I discovered 2 corrupt mp3 files by playing them over at least a couple of months... May be more as I've only got to "P" in song sequence.
And I still think the most likely culprit is Batch Converter.
May be worth mentioning that I do a fair bit of file converting via the Batch converter, mainly flac to flac or mp3 to mp3.
The convertion where I think the corruptions occurred was, probably, the largest (1502 files flac to mp3) I've done in a single run.
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[QUOTE=JeremyDrew;193952]I discovered 2 corrupt mp3 files by playing them over at least a couple of months... May be more as I've only got to "P" in song sequence.
And I still think the most likely culprit is Batch Converter.
May be worth mentioning that I do a fair bit of file converting via the Batch converter, mainly flac to flac or mp3 to mp3.
The convertion where I think the corruptions occurred was, probably, the largest (1502 files flac to mp3) I've done in a single run.[/QUOTE]
I also use Win 10 Pro 64-bit, ripping to local HDDs. I have been using Batch Converter to convert my flac library to mp3 for over 10 years and I have not seen the sort of corruption you mention.
Although I cannot say for sure, I wouldn't make assumptions here. If the issue is caused by batch converter, I would expect others to have experienced similar issues.
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I think I'll give up on this one. It only happened when doing 1500 once, and it's too much effort to repeat!