badfiles: config options/command for fixing files

[Wyrrrd]

How about a separate config entry for commands to fix bad files instead of just listing them. Also one could possibly run a separate command (for example beet fix or beet bad -f ) to fix every file in the library instead of just checking.

Suggested config structure:

badfiles:
    check:
        mp3: mp3val
        ...
    fix:
        mp3: mp3val -f -nb
        ...

[sampsyo]

Sounds like a good idea! Have any leads on fixer commands for other formats?

[Wyrrrd]

Nothing compiled for now... For .flac and .ogg files, supplying a script that decodes and reencodes while preserving metadata should work for some errors.

For .ogg the procedure is described here, for example.

[Holzhaus]

Ogg Vobis is a lossy format, and re-encoding the files will will lead to quantization errors and thus an audible loss of quality. Maybe it is possible to use oggz or ffmpeg to rewrite the file without re-encoding.

[phirestalker]

Just having an option to set the command for fixing the files would be great. In my case, I create a par2 file for each song on import. I would set the "fix" option to run a par2 repair on it.

[simonmcnair]

Repairing files doesn't normally work imo. You'll get a skip where it has removed the audio piece that is corrupt. I'd rather not have a bad file, than have a poor file in a music collection. Just my 2p