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[NightFlight]

OK, I had my main music hard drive fail  I do have a backup and once that completes in xxx number of hours, I want to know if there is a smart playlist that will find any entries in the the library that have the little minus broken link instead of the small album art on the left side.  ? Thanks for the tips in advance. BTW if there isn't, is there an easy way to create one.

[wer]

Yes, it's part of the stock Smartlists group.  Look for "Audio -- Task -- Missing files"

If you've deleted that group, just right-click on the word Playlists and select "Add Stock Smartlists".

Good luck.

[NightFlight]

Thanks again. I found it.

[NightFlight]

WER, I hate to revive this thread but I know you read the OP and today I loaded an album and it must have been I had added this album to the failing drives dying sectors. Either way, it gave the message "something went wrong with play back" and the album did in fact have 7 of 14 bad tracks. I was able to reload those tracks but using the missing albums list does not find "corrupted tracks". Is there any way to scan my massive library for tracks that are corrupted and unplayable? I can't seem to figure out how to configure JR to do that, perhaps another software can do that?

[tij]

I dont think MC can find corrupted files until it plays them.

I use CrystalDiskInfo to monitor sign of imminent HDD failure on Windows OS. You can use Windows scan drive to check for bad sectors and try to recover if any.

On FreeNAS i use periodic scrub to check for bad sectors.

[NightFlight]

Thank you tij. I had and do frequent backups, problem is the backup is only as good as the main drive. I found two programs that will check for corrupted files. 1. AudioTester and 2. mp3Val. Running them now, crossing fingers. 

[tij]

Try crystaldiskinfo ... its free ... it monitors HDD SMART statistics (without scanning HDD ... as HDD keeps statistics while normally accessing your HDD)

While it does not detect corrupted sector itself, from SMART statistics you can predict HDD failure and replace it ...

For example steady increase in HDD Uncorrectable Sector Count and Current Pending Sector Count indicates likelyhood if HDD failing in near feature.

PS: it doesnt really work on SAS drives