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Sprinterdriver wrote:Tried with: Audacity ® 1.3.14-alpha-Oct 14 2011 (Unicode)

Same files. When exporting, the result is just a crippled wav file

Does somebody know any programs out there that can (batch) clean up corrupted wav files? I has a collection of almost four thousand files that is pretty much useless because of this.

Unfortunately, the developers are tied up with other bugs at the moment.

We're very sorry if you have exported files from Audacity before you were aware of the problem. I don't think there will be any obvious way to repair corrupted files once exported, unless they are fixable by importing them into Audacity as raw data or by removing the metadata. To see if importing as raw data helps, we would need to know exactly what project rate you exported them at, exactly what format you chose in the "Export File" window, and any settings chosen for that format behind the "Options" button in the same window. It is not possible to tell this from the corrupted file because its headers cannot be read correctly.

You did not say what application created the original WAV files. If it is Sound Forge as the metadata says, whoever created the file should look at the Sound Forge settings because it has created files with non-standard metadata that can't be guaranteed to work correctly in all applications.



Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:You did not say what application created the original WAV files. If it is Sound Forge as the metadata says, whoever created the file should look at the Sound Forge settings because it has created files with non-standard metadata that can't be guaranteed to work correctly in all applications.

It comes from a file container. I think it's origin was a game. So i have no idea of what software created those files.