Music Related Corrupt
File Recovery Freeware

Quick Clips

• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features - fix music files

• http://proletsoft.freeservers.com/mmb/steeper.html - Music Repair

• http://www.ableget.com/freeware.php  - check and repair mp3 files.

• http://www.delback.co.uk/wavrep/ - Wave Repair Program (possible use - cleans up noise from vinyl records).

• http://mp3decoders.mp3-tech.org/corrupt.html  - MP3 Decoder Tests Corrupt File Test

• http://www.drtag.de/en/products.htm - MP3 Repair Tool

• http://www.thesleepwalker.com/software/ - "What is Unphuck? Unphuck is a utility that fixes several of the common problems associated with MPEG audio files."

• http://web.archive.org/web/20001202113500/http:/free-music.com/uncook... - "Uncook 95 is a 32-bit Windows 95/NT application that will allow Netscape users to fix MP3 files that were retrieved from improperly set servers.  WARNING: RUNNING UNCOOK ON FILES THAT ARE NOT MESSED UP WILL MESS THEM UP!!!"

• http://www.dirfile.com/fake_mp3_detector.htm - "Fake MP3 detector can scan your collection of music and detect corrupt/fake MP3 songs, particularly useful if you download songs from file sharing networks and websites. Fake MP3 Detector can protect you against fake music on file sharing networks such as Kazaa, LimeWire, eDonkey, BitTorrent, BearShare and iMesh. The software allows you to automatically keep a
  clean and organized music collection and optimizes your computer by freeing wasted disk space. You do not need to check your songs manually, fake MP3s are automatically detected within seconds, saving you time and effort!"

• http://www.dirfile.com/mp3_to_wav_decoder.htm - "MP3 to WAV Decoder makes burning custom music CDs a snap. Eliminate corrupt MP3 files, and decode them quickly and easily to the burnable WAV format. You can
  preview MP3s before decoding them, and ID3 tag info for the files is displayed on the fly. MP3 to WAV Decoder features an intuitive WinZip style interface, where you can add unlimited files for quick batch conversion. Using little system resources, you can multitask while decoding."

• http://www.korben.tk/ - "InZeCue is a cue reparator. You can repair cue files like cue/bin or cue/mp3...etc Very simple to use : Just drag and drop .cue and InZeCue will repair it automatically !!  In fact, IZC will recalculate good times for musical cue and will find the good image CD for a binary cue."

Apparently there are some good MP3 and associated file corruption repair freeware.

• MP3 Repair Software - the second and third tool seem the most promising ones, with the others ones are either specialized or simply check for corruption.

• CUE File Repair - according to here, Cue files are "Instructions for the burning application of how to burn the disk." So if this is important to you, this might fix the file and burning process.

• Autoplay Fix - the autoplay system can get corrupted in Windows, these two can perhaps restore it to your liking.

Please note: Honestly the commercial software and services is the route you will sometimes have to take to recover your data. Generally, it's a lot easier to find free programs for file repair for non-Microsoft products than Microsoft ones.  You can explore them by following the links to the left. 

On those occasions that you try the freeware and it doesn't work, the software in these pages will appear not be worth the time and effort you put in and this can be frustrating. I try to point out at the top of each page, what I see is the likelihood that and difficulty with which freeware can recover your data.

The Google Adsense Ads displayed on the pages should lead you to the standard commercial software and services available for the problem you are having. You can also try the commercial links by clicking on the Navigation Bar by the file type name on the left. It's also here.

To see if the program works before buying, always be sure to try the demos of commercial software first. Also the difference in prices for software that does the same thing, for instance recovering PowerPoint Presentations, can be a large range like with PowerPoint case $50 - 299. If possible, try several software solutions before buying.  For services, be sure there is a no data, no fee guarantee, and a recovered file preview available.

If you need help, I charge $22 per incident. You can E-mail me at socrtwo@s2ervces.com, but because of finances and legalities, only use free methods.