help recover files from Zoom H4

[Patryk_Rebisz]

After the new sound man messed-up a portion of the interview with his recorder acing up i forced the sound man to use my trusty Zoom H4 recorder. Unfortunately something happened and last 4 files (out of 16) are there (windows shows filesizes) but the files can't be played - i suspect it has something to do with the recorder running out of battery (but not during a take). Anyway since the files seem to be there is there a way to recover that audio from the card?

 

[mixerman]

help recover files from Zoom H4

After the new sound man messed-up a portion of the interview with his recorder acing up i forced the sound man to use my trusty Zoom H4 recorder. Unfortunately something happened and last 4 files (out of 16) are there (windows shows filesizes) but the files can't be played - i suspect it has something to do with the recorder running out of battery (but not during a take). Anyway since the files seem to be there is there a way to recover that audio from the card?

So Was it really the sound man's fault or was it just an equipment malfunction just like the malfunction on your H4?

 

[gpforet]

What kind of error are you getting and what are you using to open the files?

After the new sound man messed-up a portion of the interview with his recorder acing up i forced the sound man to use my trusty Zoom H4 recorder. Unfortunately something happened and last 4 files (out of 16) are there (windows shows filesizes) but the files can't be played - i suspect it has something to do with the recorder running out of battery (but not during a take). Anyway since the files seem to be there is there a way to recover that audio from the card?

 

[Patryk_Rebisz]

I uploaded one of the files (32MB) to my server if anyone can help out. If you do bear, wine or cocktails are on me - really!
http://www.patrykrebisz.com/bad_audio/

(the file will be there in 4 min)

 

[Rick R]

I was able to open the file in Sound Forge and Vegas by changing the file extension from .wav to ".raw". I don't know if this will work with other applications though. I could do it for you if need be.
A beer and a shooter works for me!

 

[Patryk_Rebisz]

Rick did you get audio?!?!?

 

[Patryk_Rebisz]

also how did you chnage the extension name - my adding .raw to teh files only makes files that is .raw.wav

 

[Rick R]

I sent you an emaii directly

 

[Rick R]

You have to 'replace' the extension. the renamed file should look like this: STE-014.raw

 

[Patryk_Rebisz]

Got it, THANKS!!!!

 

[Rick R]

I was mistaken, Vegas will not open audio files with the .raw extension.
However as I stated, Sound Forge (SF-Pro 10) will. Then the file can be re-saved as a .wav or whatever.