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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: F0CKER on August 20, 2005, 05:57:50 PM
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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?
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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
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should have asked first - is it by chance a 24 bit file? Created by what?
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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
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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
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so?
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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.
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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)