Fixing corrupted .wav files easily using the free VLC media player
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2015
- We had some problems after recording raw 4K footage, where the .wav sidecar file wouldn't import into video editing apps like Premiere Pro, Avid or Final Cut Pro.
We fixed the file by importing it into the VLC Media Player and converting it. No other media player could import the file for some reason, so it was pretty impressive VLC fixed it. It's quick, easy, and, since it's open source software, it's free.
This should work for any .wav file, not just ones for video. - Фільми й анімація
This video was posted some seven years ago and it reverberates to this very day. Thank you. I had just finished two important interviews and while one was pristine on my Zoom equipment, the other was not available, despite the file showing over 300 mb in data. I worked a long while and finally found that I could listen to it on VLC but was so tired I could figure out on how to export it for use in my editing software. Your video from seven years ago has helped me set up everything for the final edits tomorrow and good night's sleep tonight. It is not a small thing on how much you have help me tonight. Thank you.
Came here to say the same thing as everything else - this tutorial saved my life!!! Thank you so much, from a podcast producer who didn't have to break any bad news to his hosts!
Saved the day. This worked for me.
My ZOOM H6 recorder ran out of batteries at an event. Luckily I noticed and changed them before missing anything important but it left the file I was recording corrupted and this method fixed it.
Thank you Digital Anarchy from the CCS Video team.
God bless you man you saved me i had a heart attack realizing that over an hour of an interview wasn't playing for a client of mine, found your video and it worked like gold. you are my saving angel. thank you so much for making this video. it saved my life.
Go Bless you, my friend! You are such a savior for creating this video; even in the year 2022 it's super useful!
Glad to hear!
THANK YOU! Exactly what I needed! VLC player was the only thing that could play it and save it!
Thank you so much! I already had VLC, so I was happy that this worked to repair my .wav file! Your instructions were clear and easy to follow and the new file worked when I opened it with Audacity.
Hello! Thank you for the kind words, we're glad that the fix worked for you!
Even after 6 years this video is relevant, thank you so much for your tutorial
Thank you for posting this video, a desk recording of a gig was failing to open, whereas Adobe Audition was able to repair the file last time this happened. Using VCL Media player worked a treat.
Saved me from reshooting! Thanks dude. Still works in 2022
Glad to hear!
Thank you for sharing - it is much appreciated. It saved me from lots of wasted time and frustration. Absolutely did the job.
You're the bloody best! Tried a few other videos with no luck. Thankyou!!!
Thank you so so much. I had 1.5hr long speech file, which for no reason got corrupted. With this trick using VLC, no other paid program, I restored the file and it works perfectly. You saved my life!!!
Thanks!!, this procedure saved me an important file that was corrupt from the recorder/sd card
Heyy! It's 2021 and your 2015 vid helped me a lot. So I just wanted to say thank you!
This saved my life, thank you kind tutorial from 5 years ago!
God bless you! You saved me as well! I filmed an important scene and lost a key audio clip but you brought my project back to life! Thank you. I will pray for you, man!
Just to add to the litany of "Thank-you!" comments. This saved me from a terrible "forgot to stop the recording before popping the memory card" failure. Small note in that VLC didn't seem to allow me to recover to a WAV file but MP3 worked just fine so much relief and money saved from the cuss/swear jar. Thanks again.
Glad it helped!
Fantastic guys, just recovered from my initial panic attack from the WAV file not playing :)
Absolute life saver! Thank you!
Thank you so much! I have a deadline tomorrow and the WAV files were not working, such a simple fix.
Awesome, can't believe this actually worked!
You're a life saver! Never thought to use VLC! Works perfectly! I actually had to run CHKDSK (Windows) on my thumb drive (recorded directly from soundboard) to create FILE000[0-2].CHK files. I was able to convert FILE0002.CHK to WAV file. Prior to this I was deleting the audio files. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Solved my issue, great instruction. Thank you!
OMG THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU... I filmed a 3 day event, and 2 1 hour sessions of day 3 were messed up... I had no idea what to do... You just saved me... You ROCK dude...BAM
+Ty Jackson You're welcome! Glad it helped!
Worked like a charm! Thank you!
Many thanks 👌🏻 still saving lives at the end of 2020
Thank you so much! This worked fantastically!
My hero - Thanks! Worked great!
Saved my audio from my flight today...thanks!!!
I've just saved a dj mix i have recorded. 1 hour long, i thought it was lost. Thank you !!
Thanks so much! That was a super useful tip!
Many thanks, it worked like a charm!
you are a life saver. thank you very much!
How lovely to have the Spanish guitar playing. I was merely listening to the audio as I tried to fix the audio myself and it took me some time to realise that Spanish guitar was playing in the background. Was it on purpose that the audio track was far longer? It certainly was an added bonus. Also, my audio conversion worked. Thanks VLC. And thanks digital anarchy.
Glad you enjoyed it (and found the video helpful). I usually let the music run a bit long so folks can read the slide at the end or rewind the video if need be. I find UA-cam can be annoyingly quick to show you other videos.
Awesome! This was a great help
Absolutely life-saving
I tested with a wav file from a GarageBand project... in VLC it was giving an error playing it, saying that the output file already existed and that keeping recording would shrink it, which made no sense to me so I selected keep existing file.
Going to my documents folder, the file VLC made also had no audio.
The file still appears to have the data in it, like yours
Thank you!!! This worked for my audio!
Thank you. This worked great.
Thank You Sir.... you saved me
thank you so much bro!!! this saved my life.
You're welcome!
Awesome it worked! Thanks!
Man you just saved my life. The Creator bless you.
VLC does not give the same options as in this vid, is it because I have the latest version? E.g. it does not offer to convert to WAV, only WMV+WMA. Also my sidecar WAV files do not play in VLC in the first place...
Awesome!! Thank you for the help!
Should have known VLC would just work. Thank you for your help.
thanks! worked perfectly
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You just saved me from having to re-interview a 95 yr. old Holocaust survivor.
Thank you forever! LIFE SAVER!!!!!!!
Saved my clip! Thanks!!
My file keeps looping the 1st 3 seconds throughout the recording ... even after the VLC trick
Awesome! This worked. You saved my bacon! Whew! I will definitely subscribe and check out your products.
Much appreciated. Thank you
after I've done what you said, it says codec missing and then unable to support ???
Thanks for the help!! saved me!!
Once converted, the audio quality sounds significantly worse. Is there any solution to this?
yes man! thank you...ran into same problem with the zoom lav recording...
Thank you for this!
Lifesaver! Cheers!
Cool stuff! Unfortunately, there is no version available for Ubuntu 16.04. Do you an equivalent tool available for Ubuntu 16.04? Thank you! :)
thank you ! It worked , same problem.
out of all the programs and things i tried that didnt work, this worked ty! audio cd works, most of the other convert options did not, just kept saying the file was corupted :s weeeird!
my wave editor got corrupted after an android update. I have tried everything, Uninstaller, reinstall, clear cashe all... as soon as I record a second track it glitches and slows. can someone help me fix the issue. they're not answering my emails.
thank you!!! saved my file
Nope, the new file sounds terrible. As if it was ruined. But the original file sounded good on VLC.
it is possible that the camera is not closing the file or the drive properly.
if you are in a hurry and eject the media too soon you can corrupt the data.
wait until the camera sais it is safe to remove the media.
Thank you this worked for me. Any ideas on why this happens and how to avoid it in the future?
Can this work on overwritten corrupted wav files?
Cool, it worked!
THANK YOU!
Thanks
does this work for corrupt .mov files? I'm having a heck of a time finding a free solution...
It supports .mov files but I don't know if it'll fix them. I think it depends on the nature of the corruption.
YOU SAVED ME WOW
THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!
worked fine! thx ---- beside: the video could get to the point quicker.
THANK YOU!!
GET....... TO...... THE ...... POINT. 3 minutes in and all you have done is reviewed the situation which we all already encounter ourselves in.
How would the viewer know this is the right video to watch?
this doesn't work for a file that shows the proper size, but only gives you say the first 19 minutes of audio. (When it should be 3 hours long)
thanks this worked on my audio
Awesome, glad to hear it :)
WWWOOOOOOOWWWW>>> thanks alot
7mins to 12mins so meditative
awesome
Can somebody help me fix a corrupted wav file? I recovered a wav file after I erase it and I tried everything possible to make it work and nothing. I need help.
Have you tried to fix it the way shown in the video? If it doesn't work, try googling other ways. E.g. restore.media online service is ok too
thank you
You Are a Life Savor!! haha
All the way to converting it, it worked. I can play it in VLC but it can´t read it whne it must convert.
nice video thank you for the help
Thanks anarchy president
Thank you for sharing! Saved my bacon.
Thanks for the comment, we're glad that it helped out!
I do not get this "drop media here box.... what the fuck... I can do audio cd though... but then it askes weird question.s. like profile and shit...
Didn't work for me. The original file was corrupted because the unit was dropped mid-recording. It played in VLC and exported a WAV but that still wasn't readable by FCPX. It did create a playable file but only in VLC.
I'm sure it would work for others so it's a good tip, however this video is extremely long and takes so long to get to the point...
Weird that the relevant part is 4 minutes in and lasts about 60 seconds... but still, thanks :)
GUI has changed much on PC...
SAVED MY FUCKING LIFEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Did not work...
doesn't work...
doesnt work
Sorry to hear that it didn't work for you. This solution doesn't work for all audio issues, and admittedly it is dated. Hopefully, we can update this tutorial when we have a little more time. Best of luck in your search for fixing the corrupt file.
Sorry to hear that it didn't work for you. This solution doesn't work for all audio issues, and admittedly it is dated. Hopefully, we can update this tutorial when we have a little more time. Best of luck in your search for fixing the corrupt file.
Digital Anarchy i was able to redownload them online (because my corrupt files were samples for music)
All I hear is Flamenco music. Very bad stock Flamenco music.
I think I know what caused the file corruption... as the 10 hour wav file was saving to disk, I went to take a piss, when I came back I was greeted with windows logon screen. It just happened again... the laptop blue screened, and auto-restarted the pc... fucking windows should not do that so I know something went wrong and stay with the fucking blue screen. I cant proof it cause I stopped the event log service which is in fucking german... didnt know what it ment... haha slightly funny. IRQ less driver blue screen... kinda weird.
This is a nice example why goldwave should record directly to file instead of assume that saving can be done later.... still hate this.
There should at least be an option to do this.. if for whatever reasons this might sometime not be diesrablre cause of lag reasons.
they dont even reply lol