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Recover recording after battery died?

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exxile:
Thanks for the replies guys.

I tried Goldwave but it wouldn't accept it, also tried Audacity (including renaming my wav file to pcm or raw) but each attempt, experimenting with different settings, imported the file as white noise. The file was a straight 16bit, 44KHz wav format.

However, after searching on some forums I tried to open it in 'Samplitude' and that seems to have fixed it in next to no time. I'm so relieved. It turns out to be about 74mins in length, but I'm sure the 'Rockbox Info' was telling me there was about 2hrs of battery life left before I hit the rec button. Ah well, I guess it's prob just the age of the battery...but still, over the course of the day I'd managed to record approx 6.5hrs of music so not too bad.

Does switching the iRiver on/off (maybe 8-9 times over a 10hr period) have as much effect on the battery life as opposed to say, just leaving the unit switched on constantly?

cheers

petur:
strange, audacity should have done the trick. Make sure you import as raw

Multiplex:
There's a thread here including a tiny utility to fix the header here http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=1862.0 - basically the file may be OK but the WAV header is not updated on the shut-down so apps that (correctly) rely on the length from there will fail to load the file - loading as raw should work but will read the header as samples too so you should delete the first 10-20 samples.

Shutting down and starting up an iRiver does take quite a lot file activity on the hard disk, it is undoubtedly true that leaving the player switched on but idle (display and backlight off, CPU at low speed) for a period of time would use less power - but when is the break even?
A similar debate was caused by a suggestion I made here; http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=19239.0

exxile:
Thanks for the info & links guys, appreciated ;)

Capt_Lou:

--- Quote from: petur on May 02, 2010, 07:49:41 AM ---
No need to refer to payware when the solution can be free

--- End quote ---

I certainly agree with your philosophy, petur but I was recommending a free solution, although it didn't work out exxile. I was obviously recommending downloading the fully functional trial version of Goldwave.

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