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Title: What do you use for file maintenance?
Post by: c1c9k72 on July 03, 2003, 01:09:35 pm

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 ?

Title: Re: What do you use for file maintenance?
Post by: xen-uno on July 03, 2003, 02:17:29 pm

I don't know of any 2nd or 3rd party software that does what you ask. Running chkdsk from time to time, checking out all the logs in the Event Viewer, and defragging your drives will keep your files intact. All these utilities are all included in NT/W2k/XP. I guess I'd throw in virus checking, too.

10^-27

Title: Re: What do you use for file maintenance?
Post by: nameless on July 03, 2003, 02:28:30 pm

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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/

Title: Re: What do you use for file maintenance?
Post by: Ingo on July 03, 2003, 02:38:19 pm

I use http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ ...

it has one great feature to check integrity: it calculates checksums on mp3-data only (excluding tags)
out of the few more things it does, the freedb.org text-search is probably the best...

the UI probably not very intuitive....

Ingo

Title: Re: What do you use for file maintenance?
Post by: DV8 on July 03, 2003, 03:41:49 pm

I use a freeware MD5 creator with a good GUI called Easy MD5 Creator V1.4.
It is freeware and quite good.
Find it at
http://bssite.dns2go.com/

Title: Re: What do you use for file maintenance?
Post by: c1c9k72 on July 05, 2003, 05:17:27 pm

Thanks everybody,

With Easy MD5Creator and the MP3 Book Helper, I've gotten all of my maintenance needs under control.  Thanks a lot.