logicnewbie1 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Hello, I recorded a band rehearsal with a Roland Edirol R-09HR portable recorder. The first track won't play past the first 4 seconds, even though it is 3:29 in duration. Tried Logic and other programs- no luck. All other tracks were fine, and I didn't change any settings during the recording process. Is there any way in Logic to fix this file? File info: MP3 audio 8.4 MB Duration 03:29 Bit rate 320,000 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n6smith Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Try playing via VLC and see if it works via that... http://www.videolan.org/ VLC can and does often... play corrupted files.. If you can get it to playback through VLC then you could pipe the sound from VLC and re-record the output to another program such as Logic.. via SoundFlower for example.. Also, if you haven't tried it yet, Audacity might work too.. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Failing VLC or Audacity.. if you ever can get the MP3 to playback.. you can use SoundFlower in the same way with whatever playback program works.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Morrison Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Hello, I recorded a band rehearsal with a Roland Edirol R-09HR portable recorder. The first track won't play past the first 4 seconds, even though it is 3:29 in duration. Tried Logic and other programs- no luck. All other tracks were fine, and I didn't change any settings during the recording process. Is there any way in Logic to fix this file? File info: MP3 audio 8.4 MB Duration 03:29 Bit rate 320,000 Thanks! Logic cannot repair a damaged audio file. Try Backline Basic from Audiofile Engineering - this is an excellent audio file repair tool. The demo version is fully functional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logicnewbie1 Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Thank you both! I tried Audacity, VLC, and Backline Basic. No luck playing the full file. VLC recognized the correct duration, but couldn't play more than the first 4 seconds. Backline Basic said the file appears to be OK, so I couldn't do any repairs. Looks like i'm out of luck on this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwackman Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Long shot- but have you tried iTunes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logicnewbie1 Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 Thanks, but no luck with iTunes either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriksimon Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Try SoundHack, v. 0.896 http://soundhack.henfast.com/freeware/ It can sometimes fix corrupt file header data. If the sound data is corrupted or missing, forget it. That is like a microwaved CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmm42 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 MP3 audio8.4 MB Duration 03:29 Bit rate 320,000 MP3 is more a streaming format than a file format, you can cut out any chunk of data out of the file with reasonable size and it will play back in any MP3 player. Modern applications (iTunes, etc) add a prefix or a suffix data chunk, but that is optional. The file size seems large enough for 320kbps, so if the recorder didn't record complete garbage, you should be able to recover the file easily (I expect the header/suffix be defect). I would fix it with any hex edit, but if you can't read the binary data of a MP3, you will have a hard time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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