Is there any way to automatically check MP3's are not corrupted?

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Hi

Just wondering if there is any software that can run through a collection of MP3's and quickly/accurately check to find any that are slightly corrupted/out of spec?

I ask as my current MP3 player seems to crash occasionally whilst changing tracks (as did my previous one, a much older model), and I'm wondering if it's because one or more MP3's in my collection is slightly corrupted.
I would possibly try and listen to them all, but at several thousand mp3's (some going back 8-9 years) it would take rather a long time to listen to them all (and I'm not sure if the likes of WMP/Winamp are likely to be more forgiving of damaged/dodgy files than a portable player).

Thanks :)
 
Ah thanks, that's the sort of thing :)

I'm generally using Windows Media Player to do the ID3 tags these days (had to redo a lot of them as originally I used audiograbber for most of my mp3's and I don't think that did them right in the first place).

That programme seems to have spotted a few possible problem files (mainly older ones), i'll try using the scanned mp3's on the player for now :)
 
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