On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:19:03 +0200 Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/11/10 22:58, Renato wrote: > > Hello, > > I made a large recording in Ardour. The .wav file is 4.9 gb. I'm > > having problems with it and I don't understand if the file is faulty > > or if it's something related with the wav format, which seems to > > have some problems with large files (or am I wrong?). > > I suspect it could be faulty because the recording in Ardour > > actually went on untill there was no more disk space, at which > > point it obviously stopped. So maybe there could be something wrong > > in the header? > > > > The symptoms are: in Ardour (2.8.11 BTW), with a "small" zoom (such > > that I can see all 5 hours of recording in one screen), I can see > > the contour of the waveform only to a certain point, at approx. 1h > > 30m, and thereafter only silence. > > > > Strange thing number one is, if I zoom in, at a certain point the > > waveform appears also for the second part. > > > > Strange thing number two is whenever I move the transport bar to a > > part of the region in the "fake silence zone" and hit play, the > > transport starts moving from there, but the audio is actually > > playing *from the beggining* of the region (so more than 1h and 30m > > before). If I pause, move the transport bar and hit play, the audio > > now starts from where it had left... > > > > Strange thing number three is that strange thing number two stops > > happening if I put the transport before the 1h 30m point, hit play, > > and go through that point (after which I hear silence) > > > > Do I have any chances of getting back the whole audio file? > > yes. > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-April/068862.html many thanks to those that responded and to Erik for writing this, it saved me! cheers renato _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
