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Need tool to pick out bad MP3s

Is there any tool that can scan MP3 files and tell the bad ones apart from the good ones? I am particularly interested in picking out the ones with bad headers and ID3 tags. If there is a tool like this, can you tell me where I can downlod it? Thanks everyone. 

Need tool to pick out bad MP3s

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One tool is EncSpot.  Not supported anymore, but still available and works reasonably well:

EncSpot @ CDRW.org
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I use WMP9.  The bad ones are the ones it won't play.
 

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I use WMP9.  The bad ones are the ones it won't play.

Have you tried playing "bad" MP3s that WMP9 wouldn't play using another player like Winamp/Foobar etc?

I would be curious to see what you find because WMP9 (in my experience) is not a very good MP3 player, espcially with VBR MP3s.  It can't FF or RW, shows bitrate incorrectly which makes me suspicious of how robust it is for playing problematic MP3 files.
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You can try the brute-force method with VBRfix with the option "Fix a dir of MP3s". It will repair all files with a corrupt VBR header and optionally deletes ID3v1/v2 tags, too.