I'm looking for a good program, plug-in or something to use to keep an eye on my music and videos, keeping me up to date on file corruption. I'd love to have something using MD5 checksums for the MP3s and videos, checking frame sync for the MP3s, and preferrably something that could be used in tandem with Media Center. Does anyone have any suggestions ?
You can't really get better than doing MD5 hashes to check that a file has or has not changed, but media files are meant to be changed often--by adding cover art, lyrics, or changing anything else in the tag. But if you don't change your media files often, I guess MD5 is a good way to go.
Raxco DiskState provides a very nice GUI for creating and checking MD5 hashes, but at $60, it's not exactly cheap. Advanced CheckSum Verifier (ACSV) is another, which I haven't used (and I have no idea how much it is, since I can't readily find the price mentioned on their site). There are some freeware MD5 utilities, though I don't know of any that are anything more than clunky command-line utilities (then again, I haven't really looked).
DiskState
http://geekcorp.com/diskstate/Advanced CheckSum Verifier (ACSV)
http://www.irnis.net/