"malcolm" wrote in message ...
"Bill Miller" wrote in message
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Is there a utility that can look at a directory full of wav files and
report if any of them are corrupt in any way?

Ideally, it would also report the sampling rate and bit rate of the
files.


I thought Wav files were raw? no way to detect corruption !.

No, WAV files are NOT raw files. Wave files have format information,
enabling a wav reader to fully interpret the contents. A raw audio
file simply has samples, no format, no sample rate, no nothing.

On CAN detect corruption in the various chunks, like the fmt
chunk (bogus sample rate, inconsistent average byte rate, and
so on), one can detect whetehr chunk headers are corrupted, and
so on.

But, even if its MPEG encoded, one may net necessarily be able to
detect if the audio DATA is corrupted. (Yes, WAV files CAN be MPEG
format).