Find Broken Tracks

You can find the broken track scanner in the top menu bar under Utility

With Find Broken Tracks you can scan all your tracks and check if every track exists and all audio files are playable. If this is not the case, the track is considered broken.

Scan options

The scan always checks for missing tracks (Scan for missing tracks). These are tracks whose file can't be found on your computer.

Enable Scan for corrupt tracks to also check if every track is playable and contains no corrupt audio. This takes longer because Lexicon decodes the audio of every track. It works for all audio formats, not only MP3, and also for tracks with embedded album art. These are found as corrupt:

• Tracks with many audio frames that can't be decoded, for example a damaged download.
• FLAC files that are missing part of their audio and stop playing partway through.
• Files of 0 bytes. A track in a Dropbox, OneDrive or other cloud sync folder that has not finished downloading yet is not counted as corrupt.

Results

After the scan you get a list of broken tracks with the Reason for each track, such as Missing or Corrupt.

Relocate

If a track is missing because you moved or renamed it, select it and press Relocate. You stay on the results page: tracks that were relocated are removed from the list and Lexicon shows how many of the selected tracks were relocated. See Find Lost Tracks / Relocate for how relocating works.

Delete from library

You can let Lexicon remove broken files from your library and computer with Delete from library. The broken tracks will also be removed from your playlists. This can't be undone, so make a backup of your music first.

Text report

After deleting your files (if you choose to do so), a report is generated in the Documents/Lexicon/Reports folder. This report contains a list of all files that were deleted. It also shows which playlist contained the file that was deleted.

This report is created so you can easily replace these tracks with working versions.

You can also save the broken file paths as a text file without deleting anything with Save as text.

Re-importing in your DJ app

After you've used the scanner, your DJ app will still contain links to old files that no longer exist. You can let the DJ app automatically remove these files for you. You can also delete your entire library before importing everything, then all old files will definitely be gone.