I’ve used a product called Voice Recorder by FancyApps on my Windows Phone. (how could I construct so much wrong in one sentence).
None the less I “attempted” to record a meeting approximately 40 minutes in length. On playback the file states it’s 20 minutes in length and won’t play in the recorder. I’ve attempted several other players to no avail. I’ve also attempted to import it into Audacity as a raw file, however I’m unable to get the correct combination of encryption parameters to read anything but noise.
According to the Voice Recorder description it samples at 41.1k, however given that my 40 minute meet ended up as a 20 minute file I have my doubts.
$100 US (paypal) to whomever cracks the code (so to speak) and recovers the file into a format that I can play.
Regards, Daniel.
I’ve used a product called Voice Recorder by FancyApps on my Windows Phone. (how could I construct so much wrong in one sentence).
I can make it worse (waving hand).
“…and this is the first time I’ve used it.”
it samples at 41.1k
Maybe 44.1KHz? That’s what Audio CDs use.
You can get wacky differences between the show length and the reported length in programs or players if the system has no idea what sound compression or config was used. Audacity in particular will play an X2 compressed sound file at double speed. Cartoon voices.
If you sweet-talk Windows into showing file name extensions, what does it say?
If you load the FFMpeg addition software into Audacity, it will recognize, open and play many more different sound files than Audacity alone. Scroll down.
That’s a pretty old version of Audacity. You should probably update to the current 2.2.2. The add-on software sometimes cares about the Audacity version.
Koz, thank you so very much for the reply.
“…and this is the first time I’ve used it.”
I can neither confirm or deny the statement above (stupidly only did a test of a few seconds recording).
A playable test-recording made by “Voice Recorder by FancyApps” could come-in handy: #1. It could give-away the correct parameters in MediaInfo. #2. It could provide an intact header, if the playback problem is a corrupted header.
It’s only 11Mb. If that really is a 44.1kHz WAV-format file, it’s only ~2 minutes long.
If that has 20 minutes of audio it has to be in a compressed format, (not WAV).
Tend to agree.
I’ve tested the fancyfu#kup recorder again, although it plays back in the app ( with what appears to be a sampling issue), the mediainfo on the “wav” file still doesn’t exist.
It’s actually the app I’m using now… however that’s soon to change. It would appear that even Microsoft have given up on Windows Mobile.
Thanks to all for the assistance. I’m thankful that there are people out there genuinely willing to assist with pointing me in the right direction, even if the result isn’t what I had hoped.
