Free Tools

This page contains free, unsupported tools which you many find helpful. These tools are provided on an AS IS basis - please take precautions before modifying your files. You may ask questions or submit bug reports through our forums.

ID3Cleanup is a free utility which can clean tags in your MP3 files. Many problems people have with tags are due to corrupted files. This program will clean up a variety of problems we have seen - just run it on a file and it will make any changes necessary. You can also run it on a directory to recursively clean all files contained within that directory and all subdirectories.

Downloads

7 Jul 2005	ID3Cleanup.exe	Windows: Version 0.1.7
15 Dec 2005	ID3Cleanup0.1.7.gz	Linux: Version 0.1.7
18 Jul 2005	ID3Cleanup.gz	Mac: Version 0.1.7

Warning: This is an unsupported product - although we have tested in on a large number of files, it's always a good idea to be careful with your music collection. We suggest backing up your music before making any changes.

To see what problems your files have which can be fixed, pass the -test flag. In this mode, no changes will be made.

USAGE: ID3Cleanup.exe [OPTIONS]... [FILE]...

By default, ID3Cleanup removes empty header frames,
removes image tags with empty images, fixes header size format,
and synchronizes ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags.

OPTIONS:
    -help, -?           Display this help and exit.
    -test               Check if ID3 tags need cleanup.

    -compact            Removes everything except ID3 tags and MP3 frames.
                        Removes extra bytes inside ID3v2 tag.
    -fixmp3             Removed corrupted mp3 frames (this may introduce skips).
    -remove             Remove all ID3 tags
    -remove1            Remove ID3v1 tags
    -remove2            Remove ID3v2 tags
    -removemm           Remove archived MusicMagic analysis data.

M3UCleanup is a free utility which can clean your M3U files. This includes converting listed files to absolute or relative forms, using short or long filenames, and purging files which no longer exist.

Downloads

13 Dec 2004	M3UCleanup.exe	Windows: Version 0.0.1
18 Jul 2005	M3UCleanup.gz	Mac: Version 0.0.1

Warning: This is an unsupported product. We suggest backing up your files before making any changes.

To see what problems your files have which can be fixed, pass the -test flag. In this mode, no changes will be made.

M3UCleanup version 0.0.1 - 12/13/2004 - Copyright (C) Predixis 2004.
Visit us at http://music.predixis.com

USAGE: M3UCleanup.exe [OPTIONS]... [FILE]...

OPTIONS:
    -help, -?           Display this help and exit.
    -test               Check if m3u files need cleanup.

    -absolute           Convert to absolute paths (opposite of -relative)
    -relative           Convert to relative paths (opposite of -absolute)
    -short              Convert to 8.3 style filenames (opposite of -long)
    -long               Convert to long filenames (opposite of -short)
    -purge              Remove references to files which no longer exist

In more verbose form: pick the options you want to modifiy, and run this on any number of m3u files to apply the given operations. You can pass directories and it will modify all the m3u files in the directory (and all subdirectories).

-absolute/-relative will convert all the files to absolute or relative path names. The relative path names may be relative to the mounted drive, or the m3u file.

-short/-long will convert all the files to short or long form.

You should be able to combine the above options, (e.g. -relative -short).

AACTagReader is a free utility which can sometimes repair tags in your AAC files.

Current version: 0.2

Downloads

29 Sep 2006	AACTagReader.exe	Windows
29 Sep 2006	AACTagReader.tgz	Linux (tarred and gzipped)
29 Sep 2006	AACTagReaderOSX.gz	MAC OS X (gzipped)

Warning: The -fix option cannot repair all problems. We suggest backing up your files before making any changes.

Some products (in particular the iPod Shuffle and Airport Express) are rather picky about how the tags are stored in your AAC files. If you have AAC files which do not play properly, you may be able to use the -fix option in AACTagReader to restore the header to a clean state. You must run this tool from the command line, like this:

AACTagReader -fix filename.m4a

Another tool which may be useful is AtomicParsely. Something like the following may work for you:

AtomicParsley /pathtoaacfile -F -W

WMACleanup is a free utility which can be used to remove archived analysis data from WMA files.

Current version: 0.0.3

Downloads

31 Aug 2007

WMACleanup.exe

Windows

WMACleanup version 0.1 - 08/31/2007
Copyright (C) MusicIP Corporation 2006-2007.
Visit us at http://www.musicip.com

USAGE: WMACleanup.exe [OPTIONS]... [FILE]...

By default, WMACleanup checks if your wma files are playable.

OPTIONS:
    -help, -?      Display this help and exit.
    -test          Check if wma files need cleanup.

    -removemm      Remove archived MusicIP analysis data.


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