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Old June 6th, 2015, 07:55 AM   #1
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Damaged audio file

My Zoom fell during recording and the file is damaged, won't open in Vegas or in WMP.

Any suggestions on an application I can use to open it and transcode it into something useable?
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Old June 6th, 2015, 07:58 AM   #2
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a H4? Not saying it can't be recoverable but I had the same issue with a first gen zoom h4, it was on a minitripod maybe 5cm above the floor and fell over and gone was my audio, also the file was still on the card but no way to open it.
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Old June 6th, 2015, 08:00 AM   #3
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H1. There are audio repair solutions, I think, but not sure, I just am SO busy this morning getting ready for wedding I was too lazy to look for something. I'm just downloading last weeks wedding!
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Old June 6th, 2015, 08:11 AM   #4
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Try to try opening this file as a RAW audio file in Sound Forge Pro. You will need to set correct actual parameters of recorded WAV,
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Old June 6th, 2015, 08:12 AM   #5
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Thanks, Juris, I don't have Sound Forge, but imagine it's downloadable.
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Old June 6th, 2015, 05:30 PM   #6
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Jeff, try Audacity. It's free and a decent audio processing program.
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Old June 7th, 2015, 07:38 AM   #7
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Mike, thank you very much. I remember that program has been talked about around here before.
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Old June 7th, 2015, 08:41 AM   #8
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Yes, Audacity looks have similar function as Sound Forge:
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