MP3val(1)

💖 MP3val — like, the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is mp3val(1) from the General Commands Manual and she is that girl. yes she's a manpage, no she's not boring, we're doing this together 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

MP3val — a whole program for MPEG audio stream validation. literally her whole job. iconic behavior only 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mp3val [-l <log_file>] [-f] [-si] [-p] [-v] <files to validate>

look at her. so compact. so powerful. the way she just does that 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so MP3val is a small, high-speed tool for MPEG audio files validation and — if you want — fixing problems. lowkey a dual threat.

she was primarily designed for verification of MPEG 1 Layer III (MP3) files, but ngl she also supports other MPEG versions and layers, because she contains multitudes 🦋

she can be useful for finding corrupted files (e.g. incompletely downloaded ones — we've all been there, the wifi said no 😭). so like, vibe check your audio before you blame your headphones, fr fr.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -l <log_file> — Log file name. If this argument is missing, all the information will be written to stdout. so either you give her a diary or she just says everything out loud, your call 🎀
• -f — Try to fix errors. she's not just here to judge, she's here to heal ✨
• -si — Suppress INFO messages. for when you want her to be quiet and mysterious about it 🤫
• -p — Pipe mode (receive input file names from stdin). Intended for interaction with frontends. <files to validate> is ignored in this case. so heads up: in pipe mode, the files you typed on the command line? ignored. periodt 💀
• -v — Print version and exit. she'll tell you who she is and then she's gone 💨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Alexey Kuznetsov (ring0) and Eugen Tikhonov (jetsys), <mp3val at ring0 dot pp dot ru>

Manpage first version compiled by Sandro Tosi, <matrixhasu@gmail.com>

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and that's the sign-off: this was MP3val(1) from the General Commands Manual — MP3val(1), MP3val(1), say it with me, the source line said MP3val(1) and honestly? slay 💖✨