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rescuing an unreadable wave file
Hi friends,
I recorded almost two hours of sound this past weekend, and my recorder (a Zoom H4) ran out of battery power and shut down. But- there is a 56O MB file on it, it just won’t play. I’m guessing ths is because it wasn’t saved properly when the recorder shut down.
But there’s SOMETHING there! 560 MB worth of something. Any ideas on how to salvage/rescue this media?
thanks,
Tony -
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If you Google “corrupt wav file” a bunch of links pop up. Here are a couple. I have no idea if these work.
https://www.jakeludington.com/downloads/20060219_wav_saver.html
https://dirtsimple.org/2006/10/recovering-corrupted-wav-file-with.html
John
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Thanks John! I have a Mac (forgot to mention that in my original post) and I found a solution with X LOSSLESS DECODER (https://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html).
cheers,
Tony -
Tony,
You you were able to open it?!
Regards,
Ty Ford
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Ty-
Yes I opened it! It sounds a tiny bit “off”, pitchwise. But it’s better than lost sound altogether… probably fixable.
cheers,
Tony -
Tony,
Thanks for the sharing what you learned!
Regards,
Ty Ford
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