I think she's already taken the right steps.
Firstly, one should import as raw file.
In most cases, it is the header that is somewhat corrupt.
The idea is to skip it with the offset, I would start with a value of 48.
Unfortunately, all combinations have to be tried until the result is musical.
That is, changing the channel count (perhaps it is stereo and not
mono, this would explain the low-sounding version since the samples
are doubled and thus the wav half-speed).
Equally with 8/16/24/32 bit and signed/unsigned integer.
Perhaps it is float and perhaps even big endian (like in the aiff format).
Good luck
Robert
On 15/08/2019, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sadly, I would have no idea as to how one would go about fixing a corrupt
file, blind or not. It would probably require someone with special skills
and/or special tools.
Andrew
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2019 10:48 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Repair broken .wav files
Hi, it's Annabelle.
I wonder, is there a way that someone blind like me can fix a .wav file to
make it playable again? I have this .wav file that I created in 2015, but
it
won't open in any media player. I'm trying this program called "Media Info"
from http://www.mediaarea.net, and what I've discovered is that the file
I'm
trying to recover is a .wav file, encoded with PCM Little Signed 24 Bit,
44.1Khz, and a streaming size of 21.4 MB. That's what I get with the file
where it has the original name I named it. However, with the raw .wav file,
the one that's named something like "File 309.wav", there seems to be a
little bit more information. For example, along with the aforementioned
information, it says there's a Codec ID of 1, which I'm not quite sure what
that is, then it says the format is wav, it's 1 channel (mono), and the
duration is 4 Minutes 25 seconds. So the question is, how would someone
like
me, who has very little experience with digital technology, and is only a
beginner in programming, be able to put two and two together and recover
the
file back to its original state before the drive was formatted by accident
on 6/19/2015? Would I have to have sighted help? Would I have to send the
drive to Drivesavers in Northern California and spend $1,750 in order to
recover everything on there? I've tried Audacity, but when I put 0 as the
offset, I get utter static! When I tried 1, I get a whole lotta nothin'.
Same thing when I try 2. When I try 100 for the offset, it seems to put the
file at an extremely low pitch. Lower than the original. Sometimes I even
get garbled audio that sounds like it's all mixed up! Which number should I
use? I'm confused! What do I do next?
