Merging/Recovering .AU files

[brukback]

Greetings all.
While recording a show for 4.5 hours long, My Audacity crashed, With no panic i went into the Temp folder and found 4000 AU files.
I have read Audawiki about Recovering and the tools included, I have the files saved but the only problem is making them 1 (or even 2-3) big file/track.
The Recovery Program for Mac there crashes, Same goes to the windows version. Same error on both.
I'm looking for a method/program to connect all these files by numbers (001-002 etc..)
It would take me months to Cut Paste 4000 files together!



Thanks in Advance.

[kozikowski]

It's worse than you think. Audacity creates those files alternating stereo left and stereo right.

Audacity is not a surveillance program. You can record for hours and hours, but you can't do it on a standard, well-used PC or Mac. The recovery tools in Audacity 1.3 are very much better than the ones in 1.2 and the ones in the upcoming Audacity 2 are even better yet. Audacity 1.2 was pretty basic and easily confused.

Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery

If you make it through the standard tools and still no joy, then there's not a lot of hope.

Koz

[brukback]

Yes, but those Standard Tools dont work on anything I tried so far, nor Mac nor Windows 7, XP
So i dont see whats the point of having un-working tools on the page?

Isnt there any other way to do that? Am i the only who Audacity crashed?

[steve]

The recommended version of Audacity for Windows 7, Vista and for Mac OS X 10.6 is Audacity 1.3.12.
I would personally also recommend Audacity 1.3.12 for all other platforms.
http://audacityteam.org/download/

Audacity 1.3.12 is far more resilient against crashing and has highly effective (even if not yet perfect) automatic crash recovery. (This does not mean that you should not back up your work - backing up work as you go is an important step in audio editing with all audio software - backing up recordings as WAV files is one of the safest forms of back-up).

[bgravato]

There have been reports from more than one person who could successfully use the recovery tools. You're the first one I remember saying the recovery tools crashed.

You said you always get the same error message when the recovery tools crash... what error message is that?

You posted on the 1.2.x section of the forum... Are you really using an 1.2.x version of audacity?

[brukback]

I am using Audacity 1.2 yes.
The error it provides is "bad magic number" on all 3 computers.

This recording means alot to me, Please help me sort it out.

I learned my mistakes, I will use a different version in future, but for the meantime, I need somehow connect those au files.

[steve]

The error it provides is "bad magic number" on all 3 computers.

Is that using the "python recovery tool"?

If you have access to a Windows PC you could try the alternative tool by Tyler Knott http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... very_tools
(sorry, there's no guarantee with this one either, but it's worth a shot).
I hope that you are attempting the recovery on a copy of the data folder (just in case something goes wrong).

[brukback]

WOW! Thanks Steve, I managed to have it all in 1 .wav file now. That program works really good! Somehow i missed when i looked on Crash Recovery.
The only problem i'm having now is that the recording looks like a huge blue bar all the way and sometimes it sounds like mixer recorded from gains are sky high and the recording sounds sometimes starting to scramble.. any chance of editing the bass and such somehow without touching the track gain?

Thanks!!