Corrupted files?
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Corrupted files?
I made 3 files Friday and exported them as WAV files to my spample folder on my desktop. I also saved them as on Audacity. They all played fine on Saturday.But now two of the three files are coming back as noise when I try to import them to audacity. I made these files on Windows XP and Audacity was installed using .exe installer
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Re: Corrupted files?
In Windows Media?They all played fine on Saturday.
Koz
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They played fine then they came back as noise through windows media and audacity
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anyone got any ideas why?
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No, I mean you tried them in Windows Media right after you made them and they sounded OK?They played fine then they came back as noise through windows media and audacity
Koz
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Describe the noise. HIss, hash, garbled garbage, tight high squeek. Terrific distortion? Any parts of the original show recognizable at all? Koz
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"No, I mean you tried them in Windows Media right after you made them and they sounded OK?"
Yes. Right after I made them I tried them in windows media and everything sounded good. What I'm getting now is noise which just sounds like a quick hiss and no parts of the oiginal are recognizable.
Yes. Right after I made them I tried them in windows media and everything sounded good. What I'm getting now is noise which just sounds like a quick hiss and no parts of the oiginal are recognizable.
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Re: Corrupted files?
That was the wrong answer. [email protected]#$. I don't know what could do that. I'm going straight for virus damage or other exotic problems that could damage sound files over time.
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Right Click on one of the bad files > Properties > Advanced or Summary. See if you can get Windows to tell you what kind of file it thinks you have.
Koz
Quick hiss? Like a two or three second blast of escaping air noise and the rest of the long show is silent? That's the symptom of having a bad compression or a sound file format that Audacity doesn't recognize, but Windows Media doesn't work like that. It just won't play them.What I'm getting now is noise which just sounds like a quick hiss and no parts of the oiginal are recognizable.
Right up against the wall.
Right Click on one of the bad files > Properties > Advanced or Summary. See if you can get Windows to tell you what kind of file it thinks you have.
Koz
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This is just a wild suggestion but...
I have recently experienced some apparently random corruption of files (all kinds of files: jpegs, mp3s, word documents, etc.). The symptoms have been replacing parts of the contents with garbage and also reduction of file size down to zero bytes. My suite of "anti-invasion" software - Microsoft Security Essentials, Iobit's Advanced System Care Pro, and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - all say there is no sign of infection by any "nasties". My current hypothesis is that the external USB drive may be starting to fail. Thankfully, I think I caught the problem before the corrupted data had migrated all the way through my three-tier backups. Is it possible you are experiencing some kind of hard drive fault?
I have recently experienced some apparently random corruption of files (all kinds of files: jpegs, mp3s, word documents, etc.). The symptoms have been replacing parts of the contents with garbage and also reduction of file size down to zero bytes. My suite of "anti-invasion" software - Microsoft Security Essentials, Iobit's Advanced System Care Pro, and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - all say there is no sign of infection by any "nasties". My current hypothesis is that the external USB drive may be starting to fail. Thankfully, I think I caught the problem before the corrupted data had migrated all the way through my three-tier backups. Is it possible you are experiencing some kind of hard drive fault?