"Audio configuration is damaged".

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vlooo2008 Author

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"Audio configuration is damaged".

Hey guys, I recently composed a song on garageband (I worked hard on it) and i don't have any access to it whatsoever. Everytime I try to open it, i get the following message: "Audio configuration is damaged".

It won't let me open the file, and it's a .band file so I can't convert it to mp3 without the use of garageband. However, the message only appears for this particular song, everything works fine for the other ones. It's therefore a problem coming from the song, not garageband (i've tried to send it by mail to my old macbook, same message). For your information, I have all the latest updates (OSX Lion, Garageband '11) and I have a macbook pro.

I really don't know what to do but i definitely do not wanna lose my song because i've worked hours on it.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Thanks a lot for the help 🙂

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 21, 2011 11:08 AM

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HangTime

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Oct 21, 2011 11:13 AM in response to vlooo2008

You should likely be able to recover your audio recordings, but since most other data is encoded, I don't know of any way to repair or recover MIDI data, or editing/effecting you've done.

create a new GB project
cntrl-click the damaged file and choose Show Package Contents
open the Media folder
drag and drop the AIFF files into the timeline of your new project

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vlooo2008 Author

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Oct 21, 2011 11:22 AM in response to HangTime

thanks that definitely helped, but is there really no possible way to recover the editing too? because the editing took me more time than the actual recording process...

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HangTime

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Oct 21, 2011 11:27 AM in response to vlooo2008

vlooo2008 wrote:

is there really no possible way to recover the editing too?

i guess if you had access to Logic you could try opening the file with that, but i really wouln't get my hopes up

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vlooo2008 Author

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Oct 21, 2011 11:29 AM in response to HangTime

ok, thanks though 🙂

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HangTime

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Oct 21, 2011 11:58 AM in response to vlooo2008

you're welcome, good luck

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Oct 5, 2014 8:03 AM in response to vlooo2008

i have the same issue, but it also comes up with 'Illegal text block' and 'audio configuration is damaged' . plus all i had were MIDI data so i can't recover anything. did you manage to figure anything out?

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