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Use "BR File Fixer" when your computer crashes during recording with Boom Recorder.


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Boom Recorder saves the audio file to disk when recording. But if the computer crashes during the recording, then the header of the audio file is not complete yet and you will not be able to use the file.

Use BR File Fixer to rescue these files.

It looks at the size of the file on disk, then checks some information in the header that was written and then corrects the header.

You can find it at:

http://www.vosgames.nl/downloads/

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Boom Recorder saves the audio file to disk when recording. But if the computer crashes during the recording, then the header of the audio file is not complete yet and you will not be able to use the file.

Use BR File Fixer to rescue these files.

It looks at the size of the file on disk, then checks some information in the header that was written and then corrects the header.

You can find it at:

http://www.vosgames.nl/downloads/

Thanks Take!

phil p

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Awesome Take! I wish there was a universal program like this that worked with any file type.

I'm actually dealing with some corrupted wav files recorded on a 788.

I'm looking into using a binary editor to copy a header from a good file, then replace the bad file header.

Trouble is, I'm very much out of my element when it comes to this. Anyone ever do something like this before?

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Audacity (free for Windows and Mac) has an "Import Raw Data" under 'project'

Import Raw Data...

This menu command allows you to open a file in virtually any format, as long as it is not compressed.

When you select the file, Audacity will look through it and try to guess its format.

It will guess correctly about 90% of the time, so you can try just pressing "OK" and listening to it.

If it is not correct, however, you can use the dialog presented to try all of the different possibilities.

At the beginning of your imported track(s), you may notice a little bit of noise.

This is probably the file's header, which Audacity was not able to parse.

Just zoom in and select the noise with the Selection Tool, and then choose Delete.

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Pindrop,

I've used both Gold Wave and Audacity to open the file.

It's 1.5 hours long, mono track, recorded in 24/48 on the 788.

In both programs, it shows about an hour and 15 minutes of noise, then the remaining 15 mins are clear. (using little endian)

If I import using big endian, the entire file is there, but it's very noisy and unusable.

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Hi Take,

I see it's Lion Only - does that mean it only fixes files recorded on the latest, Lion Only version 8 of BR - or can it be used (on a computer running Lion, of course) to fix corrupt files recorded on BR version 7.xx? My dedicated BR computer is still Snow Leopard, but I always have a ProTools rig running Lion with me as well, which could host this application.

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