Hello there everyone!

I do hope I posted in the correct section as I am new to this forum, but thought it would be the best place to ask my question, so here we go:

I have recently recorded several Vinyl LPs with WaveLab, saving them as 16 Bit / 44.1 kHz / PCM / Wave (Microsoft) [these are the settings from WaveLab].

I have been doing this for quite a while now and never had trouble with any of the files, but something has gone wrong with the recent batch of recordings, as I am only able to open two or three of the recorded wave files.

When trying to open the "broken" files, no program seems to be able to recognize their format, as they don't appear to have any header (more on this later on).

I tried playback with Foobar and Winamp, also opening them with WaveLab, Audacity and GoldWave, to no avail, tried importing the files as RAW into the three previously mentioned programs (using all possible variations of the 16 bit pcm encoding) with the only output being a file filled with a constant noise/humming.

Comparing the wave files that could be opened with the "broken(?)" wave files in a Hex Editor, I found out that the broken files do not seem to have a header at all, and the data chunk featured a completely different encoding. Copying & adding a header in front of the data would result in practically the same noise as mentioned above.

Does anyone have a clue what might have gone wrong here?


PS: In case any of the Hex information could help, please tell me and I will post excerpts of it asap.

PPS: File sizes range from 125-250 MB each recording, no matter if its broken or not.

IMHO better in General Audio ...

> but something has gone wrong with the recent batch of recordings,
> as I am only able to open two or three of the recorded wave files.
> Does anyone have a clue what might have gone wrong here?

Seems to be a filesystem (what do you have ? size ?) corruption, unrelated to audio ...

> In case any of the Hex information could help, please tell me and I will post excerpts of it asap.

YES ... or upload 1 MiB of one of your buggy files ...