News: 05-Nov-2003
Ver MP3FIXER 0.42 released!
* Updated readme
Download MP3FIXER 0.42 for UNIX (0.40 for windows is also included)
here:
BZIP2 compressed
ZIP compressed
News: 03-Nov-2003
Ver MP3FIXER 0.41 released!
* MP3Fixer ported to UNIX by Papadomitsos Panagiotis
News: 19-Jan-2002
Ver MP3FIXER 0.4 released!
Glen Ford has made some great improvements
to my original code!
* MP3Fixer can with a
small effort be accessed from a right click menu
in Windows Explorer!!
* Added wildcards
* Faster
* Smaller, from 130k to 21k!
*
Works with Win9x & ME, XP, ME (as
far as i know)!
Click here for a description of MP3FIXER
Click here to download MP3FIXER 0.4
News: 6-JUN-2001
Ver 0.2 MP3SLIXER released!
MP3SLIXER slices your mp3s in 5, 10 minutes pieces,
or slices the mp3 in 125 pieces! At the same time it
does a mp3 check similar to the MP3FIXER.
Fields Marshall has with ver 0.2 greatly improved my
MP3SLIXER ver 0.1, regarding MP3 IDv1 tags, Win2k
compability, enhanced DOS command line interface, and
file handling, which makes the Audiobook slicing a
breeze!
Click here to download and a description of
the MP3SLIXER 0.2.
News: 22-Jan-2001
Ver MP3FIXER 0.3 released!
* Ver 0.1 was a bit of a memory hog
* Ver 0.1 sometimes wrongly treated the last 1% as
MP3data, not ID2 tag
* Various bug fixes
Works with Win9x & ME, not W2k!
Intro:
MP3FIXER reads and analyses the mp3 files (MPEG 1,
Layer III only) bit by bit, and if it finds any
faulty frames it creates a copy of the original file
with the faulty frames removed.
Background:
Home with the flu (18-Jan-2001) , bored i started to
write this little program that solve a problem that a
lot of users of portable mp3 players experience!
Some of the mp3 that you download from xxx contains
errors. These errors are not that severe if you are
using a PC mp3 player (read WINAMP), due to its
massive processing power, it can handle the errors
(though they can certainly be heard!).
Portable mp3 players (i've got the immense Creative
Jukebox , nowadays pretty scratched from a close
encounter with the sidewalk asphalt, looking pretty
cool though :-?) are not that great to handle so
called frame errors, and at worst they can crash the
player (need to be reseted). But sometimes you don't
even notice the error even on a portable.
OBS!
MP3FIXER does not fix bad sounding mp3, if it sounded
bad before it will probably sound bad after as well.
MP3FIXER only makes sure that the MPEG VER 1, Layer
III data format is correct.
MP3FIXER is not a commercial software (i don't think
i will fool anyone:-), it's closer to a small hack
(though that sounds almost to much as well). I.e. use
it at your own risk!
I have used it on around 50 faulty mp3 this day (not
that much?, well a wrote the prog. this day!) without
any problem. I used the Peter F. Smith MP3 utility
before and after using the MP3FIXER for verification.
I'm am sorry to say that i'm not an software or a mp3
expert, but i was inspired by Peter F. Smith MP3
utility at
http://www.geocities.com/mp3utility/
and Predrag Supurovic's "MPEG Audio Compression
Basics" at:
http://www.dv.co.yu/mpgscript/mpeghdr.htm
Please visit these sites for more into depth mp3
volapyk!
