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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: Tall Adam on October 09, 2005, 02:49:28 PM

Title: fixing a damaged wav
Post by: Tall Adam on October 09, 2005, 02:49:28 PM
so my laptop has been all fucked up recently and I lost half of the first set of the Lotus show I taped last night when it died on me (second set came out great though!). what I have of first set is about a half hour long and will play in Foobar but when I load it in wavelab, audacity, or audition, it shows up blank. when i tried to convert it to a FLAC it gave me the following error message:

WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk (weird non english characters)

I tried to changed the extension to a txt file and open it as such but its too large and keeps freezing the computer when i try to open it (in any word application i have)

anyone have any ideas on how i can fix this?
Title: Re: fixing a damaged wav
Post by: Chuck on October 09, 2005, 02:59:04 PM
When your lappy died, it didn't write the header for the end of the file.
It should be easy to fix. The way I have fixed that problem is to open the file in CDWav. Then re-save it with the proper bit and sample rate.
Title: Re: fixing a damaged wav
Post by: kskreider on October 09, 2005, 03:34:29 PM
There is a small application called audiohck.exe that folks use to correct this type of problem.  I have never used it, but I got it one day because I read that it happens a lot to folks that run PDA set-up's using the PDAudio card.  If you want to PM your email addy I can send it to you.
Title: Re: fixing a damaged wav
Post by: Tall Adam on October 09, 2005, 03:35:58 PM
ahh i forgot about CDWave...looks like that did the trick! why is the free software smart enough to figure that out and the expensive ones (wavelab and audition) unable to?

thanks guys!
Title: Re: fixing a damaged wav
Post by: Brian Skalinder on October 09, 2005, 04:06:16 PM
ahh i forgot about CDWave...looks like that did the trick! why is the free software smart enough to figure that out and the expensive ones (wavelab and audition) unable to?

thanks guys!

I think WL and Audition will handle it, but you need to specify that the data is in RAW format or some such.