ZOOM H4n Material lost on SD Card

[Joe Flood]

Ok David, thanks for the reply. Samsontech/ ZOOM are recommending Audacity to restore files corrupted in this way.

Update: I was able to launch Audacity on another MAC– Corrupt audio file recovered!!! I was pulling my hair out… very grateful for these detailed instructions.

Thanks again, Joe

[Michael Southworth]

Hi Nick,

I am having a very similar problem to this, but was recording in four channel mode at the time which is causing a weird echoing / interleaving effect when I pull the audio into into Audacity or Audition.

Do you have any advice or suggestions for handling this? Do you know anyone who has successfully recovered an audio file which was recorded in four channel mode?

I can hear my talent speaking, so the chunks are there, but its distorted and looping at points; reconstruction manually would be very difficult currently.

Thanks,

[Dewet Van rooyen]

You, my friend, just saved me a lot of money.

Thanks SOOO much!

[Anton Woldhek]

Hi,

Did you ever find a solution for the 4-track echo problem? I have the exact same issue and cannot find the correct import settings for it.

Thanks,

Anton

[Todd Cross]

Same issue with my H4N and audio files. Followed David’s helpful info. I know have a file that has an echo. Every three seconds or so are repeated after one another. (with high then low levels). Any solution? Thank you!

[Todd Cross]

Hey Michael – did you ever solve the 4-Channel echo problem? I am experiencing that now in my recovering efforts. Thanks!

[Silvio Dima]

I am also having the same problem with 4 track recording.
Somebody has a solution?
Thanks to everybody.

Silvio Dima
Videographer @ eframes.es
Production Manager @ alfatelevision.org

[Marc Lucas]

Just to reignite the thread (and because a college has this problem) has anyone actually seen or heard a fix for this?

Thanks

[Phillip Todd]

DeeJay of DSLR Film Noob has posted some relevant info on his blog for fixing this:
https://www.dslrfilmnoob.com/2013/08/06/fixing-corrupted-audio-files-vlc/

[Brian Oh]

HELLO. please please please help me!!!!
Among all the threads regarding this corrupted wav. file issue due to the H4N power loss, I found this solution the most helpful one… I did all I can do and the closest to what I’ve had is the beginning 6 mins of my 50 mins sound recording material… using Audacity and the rest of it is all with interfered, I did use all the 0, 1, 2, 910 bytes and stereo/mono… and all I’ve got that is recovered is only those 6 minutes. Does this mean that the rest of my recorded is forever destroyed, not rescuable regardless of any methods? Or if I try more options (which I don’t see anymore), can I recover the rest of it, that seems like it’s totally covered by intereference.

Please let me know, as this is SO important to me……