What's the Best app for checking Mp3 file integrity?

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What's the Best app for checking Mp3 file integrity?

The thing is that my HDD crashed a few days ago,where in i had MP3 & various other Audio-video files.
Though the files/data are recovered(about 90% of HDD recovered), but the most important URGENT thing to know is to know the integrity of the recovered data/mp3s files,which is quite massive for doing that manually, i.e -checking about 100 GB of such files (approx 30-40,000 files)
So Help is needed MOST URGENT for checking integrity of these MP3 files!

Can the Expert plz advice the Best mp3 file checker app which will do the job & leave me at peace that those mp3 are NOT corrupt & play at Level best as before!!!

HELP ASAP!!!:Comp6:
 
I've used this *free* app for years. Presumably what you will be checking for is sync errors, look in its options it has a recursive feature, so you can automatically check all dirs in a directory tree. This app will tell where it thinks they are. Sync errors sometimes can be heard as skips on some players. Winamp cheats a lot, but a sample exact player like Foobar2K wont. Just because a sync error has been found does not mean the file is bad, just that it might skip at the points mentioned.

Mp3utility will also find if the mp3 is totally corrupt as well as it wont have the correct header info anyways. These are files that you might want to replace as they will most probably be unplayable.

I'd leave it runnning overnight, should take bout 8 hrs for that amount. May go little faster, if you defrag HDD first.

Try with a few albums first to get a feel for how it works.
 
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