Can you troubleshoot Missing Audio Data Block?

[jademan]

koz, Thanks for your comments. As far as I know, they are all true.

There were Secret Oral Teachings and rumors of people who knew people who could reconstruct a clean recording with no AUP file. This was made even more entertaining because the little sound snippets were randomly named—on purpose. There was a perfectly rational data hygiene reason for doing that, but I guarantee nobody ever talked to a real-world entertainment producer before they did it.

To my knowledge, nobody ever brought an aup-free edited project back from the dead.

koz, I appreciate your anecdotes. I knew from the start that this was a difficult to impossible job. But I told Jack/Dave that I would take a look to see what could be done and I am doing so.

Jack/Dave,

While I am continuing to make progress on your project on different fronts, so far I do not have anything illustrative to present; please know that what koz has been saying is based on experience, and he has far more than I. One of the clues used by the above digital deities was time-stamps - unfortunately, the ones in your project are mostly useless, perhaps due to some global edit, so we have extra difficulties. And, as substantial later edits did take place in your project, this situation is something that we are going to have to deal with. Perhaps in a painful way.

And while I have never rescued an .aup project before, and the outlook is far from positive for this one, I have been successful at rescuing many .aup3 projects, so I am keeping a positive outlook. So the more koz is telling us things that cannot be done and why, he is actually giving me inspiration and clues to novel approaches on how it could be done.