Importing not working... bad file?

[rpvee]

A few nights ago, I was recording something rather important on the voice recorder of my old mp3 player, when it suddenly fell and the battery fell out in the middle of recording. I put the battery back in and turned it on, and accessed its memory through my computer.

The recording is still there, in the usual .wav file, but as opposed to automatically being called the date it was recorded on, it's titled "TRACK000" and is 137 mb big. Nothing plays during it. Someone on the forums of the mp3 player said this:

Get an audio editor that supports RAW and import it as a raw file. IIRC the sample rate setting should be 22kHz and the bits per sample 16.

I already had Audacity, but when I try to import this file, I get this message:

Audacity recognized the type of file 'TRACK000.WAV'.

Importers supposedly supporting such files are:

WAV, AIFF, and other uncompressed types, FFmpeg-compatible files, but none of them understood this file format.

I'm terribly afraid this file is lost for good. Is there anything that can be done to save it?

Thanks!!!!!!

[Gale Andrews]

Try what they said on the other Forum. To import the file into Audacity as raw data, File > Import > Raw Data.

* Encoding: Signed 16-bit PCM
* Byte order: Little-endian
* Channels: as appropriate
* Start offset: 0 bytes
* Amount to import: 100%
* Sample rate: 22050 Hz



Gale

[rpvee]

Ok, so that worked and I have the audio. However, out of the 2+ hours I recorded, only about half is there. It's also sped up and at a really high pitch, but I can't tell how much to change the speed to make it right again.

[billw58]

Does it sound like it is at double speed? If so, try importing again into a new project, but this time set the sample rate to 44100.

-- Bill

[rpvee]

I'll try that, thanks.

What do you guys think happened to the missing half of the recording?

[kozikowski]

When a recorder is capturing work, it has to stop every so often and "close" the files so to make them useful to other applications. That's about when the batteries fell out. So the second half of the show is likely to be malformed trash.

Koz

[rpvee]

When a recorder is capturing work, it has to stop every so often and "close" the files so to make them useful to other applications. That's about when the batteries fell out. So the second half of the show is likely to be malformed trash.

Koz

So would there be a way to somehow get far enough into the recorder's memory and find that trash? And would it be possible to save somehow?