Topic: wav file - no fmt descriptor

[F0CKER]

Getting a no fmt descriptor error when trying to load a wav file into CD Wave.  Any idea what I can do to fix this?

[dklein]

Does it open ok in other apps?  Missing header info?  You can try playing it in winamp just to make sure it's healthy - winamp will play thru a lot of stuff other software gets picky about.  There's a great little command line app called audiohack which repairs headers.
http://www.gidluckmastering.com/audiohck.zip

[dklein]

should have asked first - is it by chance a 24 bit file?  Created by what?

[F0CKER]

it's 24 bit mastered on a 722.

It doesn't play through foobar..don't have winamp installed.  Wavelab loads it but shows it as a single wave with the levels pegged (if that makes sense) and it plays a monotone sound

[dklein]

Then try audiohack.  Download the file, drop it and your bad wave file into a root directory like c:\  (just to make life easy since it's command line).  Name the wave something nice and short like 'bad.wav', again, just to make life easy.

Go to a command prompt (DOS), head to c:\ or whatever directory you chose, type audiohack and follow the prompt.  Enter bad.wav and then call the new one good.wav

[dklein]

so?

[F0CKER]

no luck....I think something was wrong with the file I received.  Something must have happened with the upload..everytime I went into the folder with the file in it my pc locked up.  I wasn't even going into the wav, just the folder.  Odd...I'm gonna try and get it uploaded again and see if I still have the same problem.  The person sending the file has no problems with it....thanks for the help...I'll check back when I get it again and let you know. 

[winisp]

Thanks for the pointer to audiohack.... It rescued two one hour sets of bands that I taped but had power issues at the end. No other program (soundwave, wavelab, cooledit) was able to correct.

(sorry for reviing this dead thread)