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Re: Resurrecting corrupt aiff file?

Subject: Re: Resurrecting corrupt aiff file?
From: "Heather Perkins" landonewts
Date: Sun Nov 2, 2008 11:53 pm ((PST))
Try Tom Erbe's SoundHack. It's a free download, and has rescued many  
a file for me. You can use it to rewrite header info. It also does  
many other more festive things.

Hope this helps, and you get your sounds back.

- H



Heather Perkins
Sound Designer - Composer - Mad Scientist
WaterDog Studio & Land-O-Newts! Records

* "Little Humans" coming out December 2008 on Land-O-Newts Records *

http://www.waterdogstudio.com
http://www.landonewts.com



On Nov 2, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Andrew Skeoch wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on recovering a corrupted aiff file?
>
> The file was being recorded to an external drive when it lost power.
> I'm guessing, but the file may thus have a missing 'end of file'
> flag? It shows up in the finder (mac), but without a preview. I have
> tried to import the file into various apps, which all refused to open
> it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew
>
>
> 










"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a 
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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