Possibly - Corrupt AIFF files - need advice please

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Possibly - Corrupt AIFF files - need advice please

Hi there,

I hope someone out there can advise me with some help regarding some AI|FF files that I think are corrupt or perhaps file header data is missing. I recently recieved 12 AIFF files from a friend who recorded a concert )that I was a part of) of the 12 files, two contain data. IE. I can open them up in a music editing editing app.. IE audition, wavelab etc. and can see and hear recording. the two files that I can open are 1,240,262 kb in size. they are 16 bit mono files, recorded at 44,100khz. I can open the other 10 files but there seems to be no time data... IE when i open them in wavelab, the length is unknown.. I cannot play them and unlike the other 2 working files, I cannot scroll further than 120 milliseconds. the file size for the 7 remaining files is 1,240,250 kb. Does anyone have any suggestions how to recover the correct time data. the correct time length would : 4 hours for each file

many thanks
Dominic

custom, Windows XP

Posted on Dec 31, 2008 3:11 AM

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Eriksimon

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Dec 31, 2008 3:33 AM in response to domcros

domcros wrote:
Hi there,

I hope someone out there can advise me with some help regarding some AI|FF files that I think are corrupt or perhaps file header data is missing. I recently recieved 12 AIFF files from a friend who recorded a concert )that I was a part of) of the 12 files, two contain data. IE. I can open them up in a music editing editing app.. IE audition, wavelab etc. and can see and hear recording. the two files that I can open are 1,240,262 kb in size. they are 16 bit mono files, recorded at 44,100khz. I can open the other 10 files but there seems to be no time data... IE when i open them in wavelab, the length is unknown.. I cannot play them and unlike the other 2 working files, I cannot scroll further than 120 milliseconds. the file size for the 7 remaining files is 1,240,250 kb. Does anyone have any suggestions how to recover the correct time data. the correct time length would : 4 hours for each file

many thanks
Dominic

You may have to try other audio apps, see what happens there (iTunes).

First you speak about 12 files, two of them open. Leaves 10. Then you say 'the 7 remaining files'... I'm missing 3!

If there was no time data, you would not be able to open them at all. But it could well be that the header containing length info is gone/corrupted. How did you get the files? Via homeburnt DVD? Have you copied the files to your own HD before trying to open them?

Soundhack (UB & free) has a menu option called 'open any...', which just ignores headers. You can then 'Save As...' Soundhack has *no waveform display* though, so don't be fooled by that.
Homepage: http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php
Direct download: http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/soft//SH896.zip

Hope this helps,

regards, Erik.

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Answer 2

Dec 31, 2008 4:23 AM in response to domcros

You could try pseudo-converting them with Compressor, that sometimes does wonders to files which are not recognized or claimed to be corrupt. So choose 44.1/16Bit/aiff as destination format and batch convert your 12 files.

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