Guys I don’t understand why you’re saying these are corrupt files when they play really well? Could someone just explain to me why Roon has them as corrupt when they seem to play OK and there’s no distortion or anything? Thanks.
Music files, for example FLAC, contain a checksum. Roon tests the file with the checksum, and if the test fails, the file is marked as skipped.
Whilst a file may play, it has changed in some way, and the warning Roon gives should not be ignored.
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Theoretically, the least significant 24th bit may have changed, and nobody will hear that, but it might be an early indicator of disk failure.
Can’t tell without you showing examples and maybe sharing such a file for inspection.
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Thanks guys I think it’s actually alright I was just curious that’s all and is there any way that I can see where the error is? Thanks
Where does it say that the file is corrupt (edit: oh, Focus > Corrupt) and which one?
FLAC files have an embedded checksum in the file that is computed and saved upon creation of the FLAC file. So you can simply run the FLAC command with the -t option on the file to test if the saved checksum still matches a newly computed one.
flac -t fileToTest.flac
There are some GUI tools helping with this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/13ji1yg/best_program_for_checksums/
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You might give the free app Audio File Health Check by 2ManyRobots a try. While you’re there, check out Yate, which is the most comprehensive metadata editor I’ve ever seen. Great dev, too.
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