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| Thread ID: 114396 | 2010-12-01 16:09:00 | Any WAV. Pros out here? | Jerry B (16110) | Press F1 |
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| 1157776 | 2010-12-01 16:09:00 | I have over the last three days tried on my own to solve my problem to no avail. I have some very dear to me WAV files that I created with the Sound Recorder that comes with Windows 95. I am not able to play them now. on my Windows XP Machine. I have had numerous errors depending on the player(WMP, DBPoweramp, Quicktime, Audicity) I try to hear them on. But most just say unable to play (codec not installed) or similiar. The furthest I got was Audicity was able to tell me how many minutes the files are and bit rate, Sample size, and sample rate which is: Channels 1 mono Sample Rate: 8khz Sample Size 16bit Bit Rate 8kbps I have recorded many wav files and all of them play just fine except for 8 or 10 of the real older ones that I recorded in Windows 95. the files are not corrupt as WMP tries to tell me. I would understand that if it was one or two but all of the older ones only? in Audicity messing with the settings I can only hear buzzing at different rates depending on the settings but I can't set it to sample rate 8KHZ but it does play buzzing when I view them in RAW but still can't get it right. I really need these files and I have tried everything in my power and knowledge and even did some digging trying to find out why just the oldest ones won't play. Yesterday I downloaded 6 or so different players just to see if one of them would play the older files to no avail. Can anyone help? |
Jerry B (16110) | ||
| 1157777 | 2010-12-01 17:42:00 | Hi Jerry B, Welcome to PressF1. Try Goldwave, see if it can open them and re-save them. I've worked with similar kinds of files a bit lately, and Goldwave seems fine with them. Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1157778 | 2010-12-01 18:57:00 | Ok Tried Gold wave and still getting : No Codec Is available to encode or decode the audio format or an error occurred during conversion |
Jerry B (16110) | ||
| 1157779 | 2010-12-01 18:59:00 | How big are these files? You could flick me one if you want and I can try opening / converting it? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1157780 | 2010-12-01 19:08:00 | You could send me a file to try to if you like, I have many tools and could convert them if needed. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1157781 | 2010-12-01 20:01:00 | Yeah send one to rob_on_guitar, he'll see you right :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1157782 | 2010-12-01 20:30:00 | You could try a player called VLC from here (www.videolan.org) :) | Trev (427) | ||
| 1157783 | 2010-12-01 21:09:00 | Depending on your recording source, sometimes the "binary" type audio format files (e.g. embedded in text files) can be troublesome to encode. One way is to get a advanced player (as noted above) to hopefully play it and record directly. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1157784 | 2010-12-01 21:18:00 | Also give audacity a try with the extra add ons for coding etc, its all free, the tend to work mainly in wav | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
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