# 20,000 mp3s OK but filenames are corrupt

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/20-000-mp3s-ok-but-filenames-are-corrupt/2711
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 2, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/20-000-mp3s-ok-but-filenames-are-corrupt/2711 "2006-01-02T15:52:36Z")
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### Author: ![Oichi](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ac91a4/32.png) [@Oichi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oichi)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/20-000-mp3s-ok-but-filenames-are-corrupt/2711/1 "2006-01-02T15:52:36Z")

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Happy New Year all

My computer crashed while resizing my MP3 partition. I recovered everything using chkdsk /f.

However, some of the filenames (and therefore tags) have been swapped. Before the crash ALL my mp3s were fully tagged using Mp3tag _sniffle_

For example - I am playing D:\Music\The Chemical Brothers(2005) Push The Button\Galvanize.mp3

But I am hearing a song by the Stone Temple Pilots. Some mp3s are named correctly and others are not. I like random music but this is ridiculous 🙂

I read about audio fingerprints of mp3 files and wonder if that could help me ?

Or is there any other way to recover the correct filenames based on the contents of the mp3 file ?

Cheers , I'm off to listen to something:-)

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/20-000-mp3s-ok-but-filenames-are-corrupt/2711/2 "2006-01-02T16:18:25Z")

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Are the tags intact? You could use MP3Tag to generate filenames out of the tags.

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### Author: ![Oichi](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ac91a4/32.png) [@Oichi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oichi)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/20-000-mp3s-ok-but-filenames-are-corrupt/2711/3 "2006-01-02T17:40:10Z")

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> Are the tags intact? You could use MP3Tag to generate filenames out of the tags.
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Thanks for the reply,

I had a look and every mp3 that kept it's tag is OK ![:w00t:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/cb01eca72fe9339ff6f3ec9f1e3c5fe002be0f0a.gif ":w00t:")  
Any mp3 file without a tag is corrupt, the contents of the mp3 file is also corrupt so the untagged mp3's are a dead loss.  
So, that makes it easy to sort out the good from the bad.

And I might even keep my DiY shuffle mp3 collection for friends to use at parties 🙂

Thanks for Mp3tag

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### Author: ![Oichi](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ac91a4/32.png) [@Oichi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oichi)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/20-000-mp3s-ok-but-filenames-are-corrupt/2711/4 "2006-01-07T06:39:58Z")

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BTW The export function in Mp3tag came in extrememly useful for sorting out the damage. I exported into cvs, open in OpenOffice and easily sorted out what music was damaged based on the missing tags.

Good work and thanks again for Mp3tag.

I have to go explain to my girlfriend YET AGAIN, that if she starts to rip the 250 cds while I go to the pub with my mates it will make our relationship so much stronger. A common goal achieved in minimal time for our mutual benefit. Why can't they just understand these things 🙂