How can I fix incorrect mp3 duration?

Question

I have a number of songs in my Music library that display incorrect duration values, and so play only partially in Clementine. In Banshee and some other players they show different duration values and sometimes play the full song.

Is there a way to fix this without having to "re-encode" the song?

Answer 1

MP3 Diags can fix incorrect durations (and other errors). It is open source and in the repositories. It is a GUI Tool.

Installation

sudo apt-get install mp3diags mp3diags-doc

Another option might be MP3val (a command line tool):

Installation

sudo apt-get install mp3val 

Usage example

mp3val damaged.mp3 -f -t

-f: fix errors, -t: keep original timestamp