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Title: Corrupted File
Post by: Tenn Man on January 28, 2008, 05:30:41 PM

I recorded a concert last night with my iRiver H120 using Rockbox. I recorded in the WavPack format. The concert consisted of 2 sets. When I tried to copy the files to my computer, I got an error message on the second file that said the file was corrupted or unreadable. I also tried to convert the file to WAV using dBpoweramp and got the same message. Does anyone know how I could repair that file?

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Corrupted File
Post by: anr on January 30, 2008, 03:32:29 PM

This happens a lot with my mate's Edirol RO-9.  I've recovered it two ways.  Burn it and play it - I've often recovered most of the recording except a few seconds either side of the damage.  Try opening it in CD Wave which doesn't simply reject certain errors, but gives you the option of "treat this as a WAV file".  Save it as a FLAC and convert back to WAV. 

Title: Re: Corrupted File
Post by: it-goes-to-eleven on January 30, 2008, 03:43:38 PM

Do a search here for 'photorec'.  It is a tool which will search for wavs on the media. Once you recover the data you may need to rebuild the header.  There is a thread here by pigiron about a utility he wrote to do that.

Don't write anything to the card until you have recovered the audio.