iRiver H320: Battery ran out while recording, left me with corrupted file?

[hardrain62]

So I was recording my friend's band off the soundboard the other night, and ended up talking with some friends at the bar after the show, while I left the recording running. When I got to my H320, the power was off due to the batt. running out. I found the file on my device and transferred it over to my computer and no program (incl. Winamp, RealPlayer, Cool Edit Pro) can read it. The odd thing is that the file is not a 0 byte clunker, but it weighs in at a hefty 869MB. So something is there ... but how can I hear it?? Is the file a goner or is there a way to somehow recover it? ANY help would be very much appreciated.

[Multiplex]

Your probelm will be that in the WAV header the length will not have been set and is probably still zero, that's what the tools you've been using are believing - I think someone made a tool available for fixing this problem...Ah here you go; http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=1862.0 (I searched for "fix wav header")

as also commented you could import it as raw PCM data to a programme (Audacity is mentioned) then chop off the front (wav header) - you'll probably be doing that anyway.

If this isn't a WAV file the concept will be similar but I don't know about the detail.

[nofish]

Running out of battery happened to me several times while recording which ended up with a file you described.

Like mentioned above, everytime I was able to restore the file importing it as RAW format in an Audio editor and save it as normal wav (assuming you were recording in wav format).

Also don't know abou the details for other formats, sorry.