What is it?These are a couple of 3rd party tools to help you weed out and fix bad/corrupt MP3 files from your collection.
How To?Download MP3Test from the following link;
http://www.maf-soft.de/mp3test/ Under Options choose a sepatate directory for the Damaged files and check the box to keep the file structure (IMPORTANT), then all you then need to do is run MP3Test to separate the good files from the bad.
Download AShampoo Music Studio 3.40
http://www.download.com/Ashampoo-Music-Studio/3000-2167_4-10025639.html (Fully Working 30 Day Trial)
Point this at the Damaged directory created with MP3TEST to fix all of the bad ones in the Damaged folder and then just copy the contents of the Damaged folder back into your good music directory and it will put all of the songs back in place (files will now be fixed and still in the correct directory structure) doing it this way will save days using AShampoo, as it doesn't need to scan the good files. Then in the future if you run across some bad files just run it through AShampoo again.
Additional:You may also like to run MP3 Gain (
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/) through your audio library to make sure the volume level is consistant across all your audio files.