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exxile:
Hi folks, I'm guessing the answer to this is 'not possible' but I was recording lots of bands yesterday with an H320 and during the last band the battery ran out. I don't suppose there's any chance of recovering what was recorded up until that point, I guess the battery went down before the file had been written to disk?

cheers

saratoga:
Assuming it was written to disk and not just in RAM, you could try and run scandisk and see if anything turns up.

exxile:
Hi, thanks for the reply. I've recharged the iRiver and managed to copy the .wav file to my pc but I can't open/play it in anything - the file size of the .wav is approx. 750Mb - I wonder if there is some utility program that can fix the .wav?

cheers

Capt_Lou:
It's a bad wav header.  If the header is repaired the music can be played. It can be complicated, but keep trying and don't delete the file. Someone on taperssection should be able to help you if nobody here can.

On possibility (that looks simpler than most) is this that I copied from another site:    

I was able to recover the corrupt WAV file using Goldwave software (www [.] goldwave [.] com).

Goldwave attempts to open the file and prompts that it can not identify the file format. It then opens the file in a RAW format. You are then able to save the file in whatever format you want (including the WAV format).

You can download a fully functional trial version of Goldwave audio editor from their website.


I had a file like this once and it played perfectly after repair. However in my case repair was incredibly simple because it happened with an Edirol R-09 (which has an automatic wav header repair utility built in).

petur:
Just import it into Audacity as RAW (16bit, 44KHz unless you had it configured otherwise in rockbox)

No need to refer to payware when the solution can be free

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