If anyone is trying to recover audio from a TASCAM DR10-L, try start bit of 2! Worked for me, and saved my audio! Thanks for the video!
@josefbalcar8888
Ай бұрын
Yes, the same for me (start bit of 2)
@NightOwlsMedia
6 жыл бұрын
DUDE!!! I was following along the entire time and it still wasn't working, so I just threw in a random number for the Offset and BOOM, it worked. You are my savior of the day, sir! Thank you!
@jabig
10 жыл бұрын
Dear sir, I record my live DJ sets to eventually share on KZitem. This evening, I played a set which was a total improvisation and then my recording software crashed and I was left with a non-responsive giant .wav file. It has happened to me before and I simply deleted the file and moved on. This time, I decided to do some research and came across your video which I followed to the letter and voilà! I recovered my mix! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!! It goes without saying that I will give you credit in the video! Much respect from Montréal!
@franceshancock8107
10 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, and SOO easy to follow. Thought I'd lost a whole concert recording, but with your help, there it was. I could see it on my computer, but it would not play and listed 'no data', such a relief to know that these things can be recovered. It's never happened before and I hope it won't happen again, but if it does, I'm prepared!
@300financialgroup
2 жыл бұрын
This video worked PERFECTLY. It took about 6 tries with various settings but I got it. On a MAC, the VLC info is not in the same place in the video, but I found it. Saved me :47 minutes worth of audio. The recorder was unplugged and the wav file was not closed. SO thankful for this video.
@JustinWhangYt
8 жыл бұрын
This video rescued my last recording. Thanks!
@zerothe3rd
22 күн бұрын
OMG HAIII JUSTIN
@muffidge
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this video. I use Audacity every week to convert a WAV file to an MP3 and then upload it to our website. I didn't know how to use the 'Import RAW Data' option (I have never had to use it) This week I was given a file, which unknown to anyone, was corrupt. After watching your video a couple of times and experimenting with the settings, I managed to retrieve the file and carry out my usual editing. Great work! The file that was corrupted came from our Allen & Heath QU24 Digital Soundesk and the record codec is:- Audio PCM S24 LE (s24l) Stereo 48000 Hz 32 bit I had to set the 'Start Offset' to 200 as no other settings worked (apart from static and distortion) and I could not see or hear any difference in the recording.
@LouisKatzComedy
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tutorial! It kind of worked for me, but I'm still having problems. Unlike your file, mine would not play back on anything, even vlc, although I was able to use vlc to get the codec info. When I imported it into audacity, it played, but in a super-fast, chipmunk-syle manner. Any idea for how to fix this?
@djJustJay
Жыл бұрын
Did you ever find the fix? Im having this problem…
@funfunfunction
8 жыл бұрын
I got a corrupt audio file after dropping my Zoom H1 and it ejected the card. This guide was super helpful, but I never got it working in Audacity. However, since VLC was playing the file just fine, I managed to use File > Convert / Stream to export a new version of the file, which worked! VLC is amazing.
@Malaikamediaug
7 жыл бұрын
This saved our file of 2hrs and 15mins thank you very helpful
@Malaikamediaug
7 жыл бұрын
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@Malaikamediaug
7 жыл бұрын
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@netimarneto6473
6 жыл бұрын
Malaika Media this is only for Mac? I need a pc solution
@allenaastrom
11 жыл бұрын
Very nifty! I had exhausted all my immediate ideas on how to get my corrupted wav file to read and play. It was a breeze to use the "import raw data" function and now my 3-hour long wav file is ready for editing! I'm loving Audacity more and more every time I use it.
@johnta17
8 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome fix. It salvaged my 1 hour interview file. Thank you. I had recorded on my h4n and couldn't even get it off the SD card, I had to run Disk Utility on my Mac to repair it, just to enable myself to copy it onto my iMac. Then it wouldn't play, except in VLC, and this is when I stumbled onto this tutorial and it healed the corrupt file. So thank you so much.
@cooliofoolio
7 жыл бұрын
This is why I ALWAYS record in WAV. I actually knew about this trick before, but I'm glad this video exists.
@PaulAdamsTheHandmadeFisherman
7 жыл бұрын
thank you sooooo much, I used VLC to convert a "lost" file so i could work with it, this would not of been possible without your video
@MrRpatricio1
10 жыл бұрын
The recording of our church service would not open on the Edirol R-09 I use every week. Your instructions worked perfectly! The file is restored and I can edit as normal. Thanks!
@markgrace2884
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sonovert! What a great solution... I had a corrupt file (track) from a multi-track ProTools session recorded by a soundman at a local nightclub. At first I thought it was a bad memory stick, but it ended up being the actual file. For anyone interested, it took probably a half hour of changing the import settings, but it finally worked. (It helps to have your favorite beverage within arm's reach and a notepad to keep track of what you've tried...!) Checking a known good file/track from the same session in VLC Media Player was a great idea as well. Nice work!
@CoryxKenshin
7 жыл бұрын
So good! Appreciate you so much for this video
@schwrap
7 жыл бұрын
CoryxKenshin OMG Hey Man
@leyy4am
7 жыл бұрын
CoryxKenshin I wondered why you liked this vid. Makes sense now XD
@NINJASAMXPGXSAMTHENINJA55
7 жыл бұрын
jezz cory every other video i see you in the comments. you spyin' on me? no jk love your videos
@francie1909
7 жыл бұрын
lol I found this vid in ur likes man keep up the good work
@gunnarmaddox9823
3 жыл бұрын
not sure if you guys gives a damn but if you are stoned like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all the latest series on Instaflixxer. Have been watching with my gf for the last few months =)
@HarrySpencerMusic
2 жыл бұрын
Was recording something in Ableton and I lost power (Was an hour long file too! :/ ) My file wasn't playable in VLC, although I still managed to recover it by experimenting with the raw data import settings in Audacity! This video is an absolute lifesaver!!
@user-ex2yt1pl6u
5 жыл бұрын
You saved me with this video. From the bottom of my heart, I pray you live long, and I wish you the best of everything. Thank you.
@KevinStCroix
7 жыл бұрын
Awesome. I had an 90 min recording of a concert that was irrecoverable up until this point. The thing that helped me was I was able to use quicktime to see the linear PCM and the Endian encoding. In my case I had to switch to match the following with my Tascam recorder: Encoding: Signed 16 bit Byte Order: Little Endian Channels: Stereo Start Offset: 0% Amount to import 100% (though I did only import 5% at a time till I got it right) Sample Rate: 48000k (my recorder is set to this sample rate on capture) Super grateful. Thank you!
@ambleskramble
11 жыл бұрын
This has just saved me. I had a bunch of interviews recorded from a kids residential which were mostly corrupted. I've managed to save them. You rock. Now I can make the audio documentary that I promised them. Phew!
@KevinNMunro
11 жыл бұрын
Wow, opened up a pro tools session that was recorded two months ago. the mix was due in two days and 25 minute clip would not open in Pro Tools / Quick time / VLC / Ffmpeg. Free audacity coming to the rescue!!!! cheers for this vid!!!
@johnedmonds4578
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This saved me for sure. I just used Audacity as you mentioned, and after a few tries, I got the right settings. My offset was 100. Thanks again!
@tarabrewer9866
9 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!! A file was corrupt and it was the only copy. Least to say, my business and reputation depended on saving this file to transcribe the contents. THIS WORKED. I appreciate you taking the time to make this tutorial!
@venumeagle4264
7 жыл бұрын
What happens if VLC does not display any information in the codec tab? Is there another way to get the information required for audacity to read the file?
@h00b00
5 жыл бұрын
yeah mine said something like "Audio codec: undif Bitarate: 32kb/s" etc...but knowing that most recorders record in 24bit PCM with 48KHz (or 16bit 44.1KHz) I was able to recover my audio. The key value for me was the offset byte which I set to 200
@faraimberi
4 жыл бұрын
An answer from the future. Why not try to get codec information from one that is not corrupted? Don't have one? Rerecord and get codec info
@impactfuel249
7 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! This video saved an AMAZING podcast from pure corruption.
@XpressStudiosforyou
7 жыл бұрын
if i see you somewhere on the road, I will literally touch your feet in front of everyone. That file is extremely important to me . It worked !! and I am very thankful to you!
@sivaraja2758
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a Lot. I repaired my .Wav file in the technique as you explained, the file in which I stuck with and depressed. Thanks a lot for you and Audacity.
@EtheriumSky
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Just started editing a doc shot in some remote areas in Asia and found that my key interview audio file was corrupt. you just saved my work!
@jffmrk
7 жыл бұрын
This was so great, thanks for the tip! I used 512bytes as the offset - 100 didn't work. My audio recorder (Tascam DR-10L) stopped recording after about an hour - it was still on but the timecode wasn't advancing anymore. The battery was low to start with so maybe it tried to save and shutdown near the end of the battery. Not sure what happened, but I ended up with a 500MB+ file that wouldn't open normally. VLC played it fine, and importing it as raw worked well. Thanks again!
@user-rp9qi1wr6o
5 ай бұрын
same situation, and 512 worked for me as well!
@gabzito240p
Ай бұрын
brooo thank youu. Messing around with "offset" setting it to 1 I believe, is what worked for me
@tactusmediacompany
6 жыл бұрын
This worked! Just make sure your codec details are correct. Thank you sir for making this tut.
@jamzak811
11 жыл бұрын
This worked like a charm. Was able to get a clients old, corrupted, marketing files back. THANKS!
@YangombiUmpakati
9 жыл бұрын
hey, just had similar problem, but your approach didn't work. what in the end helped was using VLC to convert (corrupted WAV) audio file to FLAC and then audacity was able to open it. seems VLC is sort of lifesaver :)
@himanshugupta9656
6 жыл бұрын
thnx a lot brother, for me you are the life savior, spent the whole fucking day to recover my files by using the approach said in the video, but it didn't work out. Checked with all different offset, byte order, nothing works out. But your method is quite simple and it works very well for my audios.
@7AW
8 жыл бұрын
Thx mate! Saved part of my exam work. Small values didn't work but once i used 20000 there it was. Awesome!
@czajla
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. Worked like a charm for me. It saved me a 2 hours recording of an interview with a very interesting person. BTW. Kodek for me is PCM S16 LE. I think LE stands for Little Endian here.
@nikitachepurnoi9835
12 күн бұрын
yeees!!! it works - I used 100 and it gave noise, 800 gave me the perfect result, thanks, dude!!!
@CrumBummin
8 жыл бұрын
how do I open old audacity files that were recorded on an older version? I am using version 2.0.2 and I wanted to import project files from 1.2.6 but it won't work. Also, those older project files didn't open once I plugged them into the older 1.2.6 version (after re-downloading it)
@hyperbolicfilms
6 жыл бұрын
May you find all the happiness you desire! Saved me a lot of re-recording.
@charvakkarpe
9 жыл бұрын
For the start offset, you need to figure out how many bytes are used for the WAV file header (with the rest being data). It's often 44 byte headers in a standard WAV, but it can vary. In your situation, stereo 24-bit PCM uses 6 bytes (48 bits) per frame. So we know the header size is not a multiple of 6, or else the data portion wouldn't have been jumbled up. If an offset of 100 worked, even an offset of 4 would have worked. We know your header is not 44 bytes, but could be 46, 52, 58, 64, ... 94, 100, ... etc. because then the data chunks show up aligned.
@charvakkarpe
9 жыл бұрын
+Charvak Karpe I just checked and my recorder generates 910 byte headers. I took non-corrupt recordings and compared the number of audio frames (x 6 for 24-bit stereo) to the number of bytes on disk. Saw that there were 910 extra bytes on disk, so that works as a perfect offset. 100 would have worked, since 810 is a multiple of 6, but that would have left 170 frames of noise at the beginning. It's only 4 ms, so no big deal, but it's nice to know how to get it right. The files become corrupt like this in the first place if the recorder abruptly shuts down before it gets to update the number of frames in the header. VLC probably just infers the number of frames if it's specified as 0 in the header, which is a logical and cool feature.
@spiffor
10 жыл бұрын
Don't know if this has been said already, couldn't find it in the comments. I am pretty Sure "PCM S24 LE" means Codec: PCM Signed 24 bits and LE stands for Little Endian. Start offset means it skips the first few Bytes before beginning to import. Should be set to 0 if you want everything to be there I guess. Edit: Oh and a big thanks for the hint to VLC. That's a huge timesaver if a recording stops when a game just crashes again
@cyril4661
7 жыл бұрын
Sorry if this a dumb question, but does the "Start off-set" have to be a 100?...
@Lynnott96
3 ай бұрын
Hi there, any tips on how to recover codec info? I'm trying to save an interview from a water damaged usb drive, and couldn't find a way to get the codec info (it's just always blank)... I've been playing around just a bit and audacity actually managed to save some raw data but the audio is just static and some incomprehensible sounds like sped up mickey-mouse mumble ?? Anyway it gives me hope that there is still something to recover and I would appreciate any help a lot!
@Lantit
4 жыл бұрын
I love you because now I can use a 2h long audio instead of deleting it.
@toomanytimestotell
10 жыл бұрын
You Sir, are a legend and an absolute life saver! This totally works but I needed to play around with the offset for the best results. Any number could have done it but some numbers do it better than others so I would recommend playing around with it before exporting! Thank you so much!
@WorkingEveryDay
10 жыл бұрын
This worked perfectly. I used an offset of 10 after getting the audio properties using VLC. Thank you!
@MrTaylorSteele
9 жыл бұрын
I'm having an isssue. I have a feeling you're going to tell me the files are toast. I have recovered files, some of the them are proper size but display no time code. Lastly, when I go to check the codec in VCL I get no information at all. Any ideas? Thanks !
@MarkGarrettBusinessCoach
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks, worked like a charm. Was a recording of a critical meeting and no-one took notes. Thought it was lost for ever.
@bellzfilms
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. I got a corrupt audio from be infected with ransomware and it has saved my audio files. Thank you
@redred9882
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. You saved my music life. Had a recording from a gig and one of the files was corrupted but your method on audacity fixed it :)
@forwardbound
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! This fixed several DJ mixes I had recorded on USB. PCM signed 16-bit little-endian worked for me after VLC told me the codec was mp4a with an extremely low bitrate.
@Garcia061
6 жыл бұрын
I have 2 x 64GB corrupted cards of wav files recorded at 96khz / 24 bit - tried this but vlc wouldnt read it. shame, not sure what to do....
@cuttheloop
8 жыл бұрын
Greatness... boss was pissed because he had a corrupt voicemail file. Now he thinks I'm "magic" lol
@kerrieasterly7439
8 жыл бұрын
Very easy to follow tutorial and, best of all, it worked! Thank you so much for taking the time to make and post this.
@637514
8 жыл бұрын
I HAVE A VIDEO ITS LAST PARTS AUDIO IS DAMAGED HOW CAN I RECOVER IT
@ohmrjames
7 жыл бұрын
Woo! this worked a treat with a broken Ableton wav! I'd been working with that all day. Thanks Sonovert :)
@123blah543
10 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOSH YOU ARE A LIFESAVER!!!! THANK YOU!!! GUYS, HIS METHOD REALLY WORKS! THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!!
@ReavoEnd
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This helped me recover some very important audio for a video project. Your tutorial is just what I needed.
@MichelleJarni
11 жыл бұрын
I am having the exact same problem would love to know which one to choose!
@HENRYCHAN330
8 жыл бұрын
It's a great technical news~!! But I wounder, if the codec is "MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)" , so what should i choose the encoding field in Audacity??
@forwardbound
8 жыл бұрын
I got that too with VLC. So I opened a normal WAV file in VLC which told me the codec was PCM S16 LE. Try PCM signed 16-bit little-endian.
@ewaewa1037
7 жыл бұрын
Hi guys. Could you tell me what is the "start offset for M4a (AAC MP4)" pleas???! I lost important date and I can not fix it :(( pleas
@samrivkin2458
10 жыл бұрын
how do you do it if you have a missing codec, file is zero bytes. I'm lost.
@nicolasghee
7 жыл бұрын
thanks dude, helped me recover an important wav file. I used Adobe Audition, which was also working. Just need to import the corrupt file with the correct sample rate and voila, could recover it (after first had to recover it from a deleted fat32 partition)..
@apiaaron
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I had a ZOOM H4N audio recording where the batteries went dead and didn't close the file. I used this to recover the main audio recording from a wedding I was shooting video on.
@Labyrinthcc123
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you - after two days of searching, this solved my problem. Very grateful!
@Bertanerny
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this, thanks to you I've just salvaged a whole nights recording
@WeeklyHow
4 ай бұрын
11 years later still saves lives.
@CosmoRockify
11 жыл бұрын
Great video. Do you have any suggestions for if the codec in Audacity just says (undf)? Thanks.
@blissettluther
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your straight forward and simple tutorial how to recover br0k3n wav data. Thanks to your video I was able to recover data from a power failure on my Allen&Heath ICE-16 recorder.
@Mykel0007
10 жыл бұрын
I have an 3gp audio file..I've toiled with all d settings just to get a clear sound but no success, its all noise...if u or anyone can help it with problem pls do let me know.. I'ld be glad.
@adrianchiotan3060
7 жыл бұрын
Can somebody help me fix a corrupted wav file? I recovered a wav file after I erase it and I tried everything possible to make it work and nothing. I need help.
@paranaut23
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the hint! Maybe helpful for others: The offset can be usually fixed with the offset value of 1 or 2 bytes... mine worked with 2 bytes. I used mediainfo program instead of vlc.. there you'll get also the endianness of the file.
@somaticjet2717
2 жыл бұрын
anybody know what numbers to put in the dialogue box if ableton has crashed while recording audio?
@aimainplm
11 жыл бұрын
hey vlc won't show anything on the codec page , do you have any idea why . i have to mention the file i am trying to restore is a deleted file wich i managed to recover after a format. please if you know what the problem is reply. thanks in advance.
@raccoonzest222
10 жыл бұрын
Sadly, this wouldn't work for me, because in my case, my computer shut off in the middle of the WAV download. So not the entire recording was saved.
@aresetih9969
4 жыл бұрын
Guys i accidently saved as project. Now its so many parts of my song. How to get back my all audios in 1 helppppp
@Stelgim
9 жыл бұрын
Great help I got here, saved a very long audio file that I thought was lost since my recording software crashed :D
@ryana.miller8260
9 жыл бұрын
@LouisKatzComedy, I would try looking at your sample rates. If you're not familiar with sample rates, it's the number of audio samples taken per second, just like the number if frames per second in video. If your audio was recorded at 44,100 sample rate for example, and you try to recover it as a 48,000 sample rate, it will play back faster than what it was meant to. Hope that helps.
@hupfman
11 жыл бұрын
hey Sonovert, via storage recovery I just saved .wav files a friend of mine accidently deleated. But I still got the problem that I can't open them even if I follow your advices. Any ideas? Thx.
@searchingforthesound2024
5 ай бұрын
Update 2024: this didn't work for me, but I used the VLC command File>Convert/Stream, dropped the file in to the window which opens, and in the "Choose Profile" menu chose "Custom" at the bottom, then hit "Customize", and went to the "Audio Codec" tab and chose "Keep original audio" and hit save and it produced a new file in full quality at 96khz/24 bit
@senthilvelan544
7 жыл бұрын
Doesn't help! - Audio info The codec on the audio is PCM S16 LE(araw) Channel is Stereo and the sample rate is 48000 Hz Bits per sample rate is 16. - The data set while importing raw in audacity: Encoding: Signed 16 Bit PCM Byte order LE Channels 2 (Stereo) Sample rate 48000 Hz I've tried start offset with 0, 100, 1000 None worked. What did i do wrong? And What if the Codec is MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)?
@ewaewa1037
7 жыл бұрын
Hi guys. Could you tell me what is the "start offset for M4a (AAC MP4)" pleas???! I lost important date and I cannot fix it :(( pleas
@TheMikewinslow
11 жыл бұрын
saved back as a 16 bit .wav though.. wasnt it originally 24 bit? I just checked the output, and despite audacity showing 16 bit, VLC sees it as 96/24.. I have hope that this will work.. Thanks for the video.
@mehtajeet
11 жыл бұрын
ITS WORKING! RECOVERED BACK!! :) I had asked many experts to recover my corrupted file - But none of them were able to get to a solution! I'm highly thankful to Sonovert for sharing this video!
@nickmundy4266
10 жыл бұрын
It worked as per the video, but also I found that having loaded and played the corrupt WAV file in VLC I was able to Convert/Save to an MP3 file directly without using Audacity. Possibly just lucky with the specific corruption I had.
@islandpicturesjamaica3423
6 жыл бұрын
Just saved my life. Just did a wedding and had two audio source. Got home, only one had audio and it was corrupt :( dont know how that happened. Tried this method and now I am good.
@bouchex
11 жыл бұрын
Great it works...:) thank you very much, i had a 2 GB Wav file couldn't open it from any player... Thank you, you saved my recording... greatings from Switzerland...
@bigbear4992
3 жыл бұрын
what do you do if you dont get the duration?
@michaelandersen9091
7 ай бұрын
this video helped me rescue my corrupted .wav file! Thank You!
@recsule115
6 жыл бұрын
oh my god, thank you so much! I needed to recover a corrupted audio file for KZitem and I could do it! Thank you!
@kushagrasingh5231
7 жыл бұрын
what if i did nit get any information about my video from vlc
@MrRpatricio1
9 жыл бұрын
This worked great. I was able to recover a file on my Edirol 09 when the battery died mid-program.
@FlyboyHelosim
4 жыл бұрын
You can actually skip the Audacity part altogether and simply save it through VLC.
@tunio14ify
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot :) Worked very well, and even with offset set to 0 - all other values you mentioned gave a static noise.
@fhturner3
Жыл бұрын
Nine years later...thank you!!!
@darrendopwell5066
2 жыл бұрын
I followed your tutorial and it worked. Thanks!
@cianamusic5971
8 жыл бұрын
Excellent how-to! Worked a treat. Thanks for saving my project.
@warwickpaton147
6 жыл бұрын
fantastic, worked for me, had to use 500 bytes for the start offset
@cosmo103
7 жыл бұрын
do you know how to fix a desmagnetize audio.
@randallpaul6559
8 жыл бұрын
great tutorial although it didn't work for me with my Tascam audio data (0bytes) 24bit stereo, record time 3:52. Tried all the settings and still got the static so maybe my corrupt file had different issues. Funny because all files recorded before and after are fine.
@adrianchiotan3060
7 жыл бұрын
Did you find any solutions to your problem? Mine is similar.
@randallpaul6559
7 жыл бұрын
no sorry
@InlaughingColours
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the help bro
@chriswoodvine9370
7 жыл бұрын
you sir a gentleman and a scholar, I bloody love you! Thankyou so much!
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