software for checking audio files for problems?
hello all, does anyone know, if there is any software for checking for, and preferably also fixing problems in audio files? I have recently experienced a number of problems with some downloaded mp3 files, which whilst they play just fine on the computer, when put on an SD card or USB stick, and played back on something like a PTX1, either won't play at all, just make a horrible noise, or end before they should. these issues are very annoying when trying to listen to a good audio book, so if possible, I would like to be able to find and hopefully fix them before putting the files on the media for the PTX1, and only finding out when trying to listen to the book. Simon
Re: software for checking audio files for problems?
Simon, Please put a couple of files causing the problem on SS or dropbox and send me the links privately and I will see if the same thing happens to me and how, if possible, I can assist.
Re: software for checking audio files for problems?
Simon, Check out the sampling rate, and bit-rate. Then check the player, and see if the player has support for the current file attributes. If not, trans-code them to a supported format attributes type. Good luck. On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:39:51 +0100 goshawk on horseback wrote: hello all, does anyone know, if there is any software for checking for, and preferably also fixing problems in audio files? I have recently experienced a number of problems with some downloaded mp3 files, which whilst they play just fine on the computer, when put on an SD card or USB stick, and played back on something like a PTX1, either won't play at all, just make a horrible noise, or end before they should. these issues are very annoying when trying to listen to a good audio book, so if possible, I would like to be able to find and hopefully fix them before putting the files on the media for the PTX1, and only finding out when trying to listen to the book. Simon -- Joe Paton
Re: software for checking audio files for problems?
a good idea, but unfortunately, that's not really practical when transferring 100 or more audio books on to a card. Simon - Original Message - From: "Joe Paton" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:53 PM Subject: Re: software for checking audio files for problems? Simon, Check out the sampling rate, and bit-rate. Then check the player, and see if the player has support for the current file attributes. If not, trans-code them to a supported format attributes type. Good luck. On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:39:51 +0100 goshawk on horseback wrote: hello all, does anyone know, if there is any software for checking for, and preferably also fixing problems in audio files? I have recently experienced a number of problems with some downloaded mp3 files, which whilst they play just fine on the computer, when put on an SD card or USB stick, and played back on something like a PTX1, either won't play at all, just make a horrible noise, or end before they should. these issues are very annoying when trying to listen to a good audio book, so if possible, I would like to be able to find and hopefully fix them before putting the files on the media for the PTX1, and only finding out when trying to listen to the book. Simon -- Joe Paton
Re: software for checking audio files for problems?
You would use a batch converter to achieve this, once you know which paramaters you need to change to make these files play on the device, which, at this time they don't. So you don't really have a choice, well actually you do, you, don't bother. the choice is yours. Joe On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:53:05 +0100 goshawk on horseback wrote: a good idea, but unfortunately, that's not really practical when transferring 100 or more audio books on to a card. Simon - Original Message - From: "Joe Paton" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:53 PM Subject: Re: software for checking audio files for problems? Simon, Check out the sampling rate, and bit-rate. Then check the player, and see if the player has support for the current file attributes. If not, trans-code them to a supported format attributes type. Good luck. On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:39:51 +0100 goshawk on horseback wrote: hello all, does anyone know, if there is any software for checking for, and preferably also fixing problems in audio files? I have recently experienced a number of problems with some downloaded mp3 files, which whilst they play just fine on the computer, when put on an SD card or USB stick, and played back on something like a PTX1, either won't play at all, just make a horrible noise, or end before they should. these issues are very annoying when trying to listen to a good audio book, so if possible, I would like to be able to find and hopefully fix them before putting the files on the media for the PTX1, and only finding out when trying to listen to the book. Simon -- Joe Paton -- Joe Paton
