Fix a Corrupt Wav Audio File in Audacity

Author: Sonovert
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In this video we are going to look at how to fix a broken .wav file in Audacity. We use (the free and awesome) VLC media player to get data and then select import raw data in Audacity. Life saver!! http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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  1. With regards to the endianness (byte order), VLC tells you this. At the end of the "Codec" in the information, "LE" stands for little endian.
  2. Thanks a lot :) Worked very well, and even with offset set to 0 - all other values you mentioned gave a static noise.
  3. Thank you!!
  4. VLC now auto detects corruption and did not offer import raw parameters. worked perfectly
  5. This was so great, thanks for the tip! I used 512bytes as the offset - 100 didn't work.

    My audio recorder (Tascam DR-10L) stopped recording after about an hour - it was still on but the timecode wasn't advancing anymore. The battery was low to start with so maybe it tried to save and shutdown near the end of the battery. Not sure what happened, but I ended up with a 500MB+ file that wouldn't open normally. VLC played it fine, and importing it as raw worked well. Thanks again!
  6. do you know how to fix a desmagnetize audio.
  7. Thanks... great! Worked!
  8. Awesome.
    I had an 90 min recording of a concert that was irrecoverable up until this point.
    The thing that helped me was I was able to use quicktime to see the linear PCM and the Endian encoding. In my case I had to switch to match the following with my Tascam recorder:

    Encoding: Signed 16 bit
    Byte Order: Little Endian
    Channels: Stereo
    Start Offset: 0%
    Amount to import 100% (though I did only import 5% at a time till I got it right)
    Sample Rate: 48000k (my recorder is set to this sample rate on capture)

    Super grateful.
    Thank you!
  9. Thanks for the hint!
    Maybe helpful for others:
    The offset can be usually fixed with the offset value of 1 or 2 bytes... mine worked with 2 bytes.
    I used mediainfo program instead of vlc.. there you'll get also the endianness of the file.
  10. Woo! this worked a treat with a broken Ableton wav! I'd been working with that all day. Thanks Sonovert :)
  11. thanks dude, helped me recover an important wav file. I used Adobe Audition, which was also working. Just need to import the corrupt file with the correct sample rate and voila, could recover it (after first had to recover it from a deleted fat32 partition)..
  12. Thanks! You just saved my day
  13. So glad this worked, nice video man!
  14. Thank you SO MUCH! I was losing hope already
  15. I HAVE A VIDEO ITS LAST PARTS AUDIO IS DAMAGED HOW CAN I RECOVER IT
  16. I got a corrupt audio file after dropping my Zoom H1 and it ejected the card. This guide was super helpful, but I never got it working in Audacity. However, since VLC was playing the file just fine, I managed to use File > Convert / Stream to export a new version of the file, which worked! VLC is amazing.
  17. Thanks for this. I use Audacity, and last week 10 of my 14 files imported perfectly. The other 4 said they were corrupt, something about codec etc. Unfortunately I don't have the technological know-how to access these files, and it's driving me mad. I tried to import them onto my old Mac, but it said something about it being a 4 bit file??
  18. I wish it would work. VLC cannot read my broken .wav file
  19. great tutorial although it didn't work for me with my Tascam audio data (0bytes) 24bit stereo, record time 3:52. Tried all the settings and still got the static so maybe my corrupt file had different issues. Funny because all files recorded before and after are fine.
  20. Nice one thank you!