Help! Did I lose a live concert recording? (SOLVED)

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2011/08/13 21:15:15 (permalink)

Help! Did I lose a live concert recording? (SOLVED)

Tonight I was recording a live concert.  Everything was going fine for the first 1/2 hour or so.  Sonar X1B going non-stop with my Saffire Pro 40 (2 mics).  Suddenly my PC shut down.  Not sure why.  Power outage? Sonar crash? Luckily, I've been hitting ctrl-S (save) during applause of each piece.  Crash happened about 20 seconds after my 6th save or so.

I found the two 171MB files in the audio directory but no program can play them.  They were gone from my project so I tried to import them.  Sonar would not import them (no error or anything).  Probably a corrupt file.  Other audio players say invalid format (44.1/16).  Adobe audition says: Windows PCM file, uncompressed Size: 0K, Time 0:00.000

Since I've been hitting save frequently hopefully its just a corrupted header or something.  ANY IDEAS?

After rebooting and continuing, those files are fine.  So are all the test files for setting levels etc.

post edited by SH - 2011/08/15 12:23:43
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    jbow
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    Re:Help! Did I lose a live concert recording? 2011/08/13 21:40:27 (permalink)
    There are businesses in most cities that claim they can restore any deleted or corrupted file even reformatted drives. Check online, if one is near and looks decent I might give them a try most seem to be realy reasonable for a small job like that. I think they make their money of business computers... I would think you should be able to find someone to do it for under 100 bucks... maybe evenless if you provide the newdrive for the files. Maybe a thumb drive. If you have a friend in IT they may have the software and knowhow.
    The files don't seem to be gone they just seem to have lost their ext name ? or thier association.. I don't know the correct terms but they are obviously there, it should be a really easy fix for someone who knows how and maybe someone here can tell you how to do it.


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    Re:Help! Did I lose a live concert recording? (RESOLVED) 2011/08/13 21:50:57 (permalink)
    Thanks for the reply.  After a google search I found an easy answer.

    Download Audacity Freeware.  I used v. 1.3.13-Beta
    Use FILE/IMPORT and select IMPORT RAW DATA.
    It imported fine.  I used the default settings (Encoding, byte order, etc.) Once imported I hit play to test, then exported to WAV.  Already tested and it imported fine into Sonar.

    WHAT A RELIEF!

    ps:  Here is where I found it:
    http://www.audioforums.com/forums/showthread.php?15778-Corrupt-wav-file-repair-help


    post edited by SH - 2011/08/13 21:55:11
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    Re:Help! Did I lose a live concert recording? (RESOLVED) 2011/08/13 21:57:19 (permalink)
    Good save!!!!


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