I need a help with a script, music problem.

[flashingcurser]

I had a harddrive die on me, it had 70 gig of music on it. Before it died completely, I was able to copy it to another 80 gig drive althoough with huge number of I/O errors. The contents went form 70 gig to about 50 gig. 20 gigs lost to corruption.

The problem is that most of the files that made it are good, the ones that are corrupted are random throughout the collection. 50 gig of files to go through and see if each plays will drive me nuts.

Can anyone think of a script that will test the file if it is playable -- ignore it, if it doesnt play -- delete it?

I cant seemed to get my head wrapt around this.

Anyone have any thoughts? (thoughts in perle or bash are good heh)


Thanks

dan

[Tyr_7BE]

What happens when you try to play a music file with a command line player, ie mpg321? Do you get an error?

If you get an error message, you can write a perl script using `backticks`. Backticks are the key that doubles as the ~tilde. Try putting a command in backticks and printing the result.

ie,
print "The result of the command is "
my $i = `ls`
print $i

If you can get an error msg out of a command line player, you can parse the output.

[flashingcurser]

Oops, false alarm ;D I found 2 proggies in apt for just such occasions. checkmp3 and mp3check

Beyond that;
I guess I'm not that familliar with command line players. Any boxes I have without a gui, also dont have a sound card (or configured). Xmms simply would not open the files.

Regardless-- problem solved.


Thanks

dan