Corrupt wav files

[actionman]

Hi
I am having very big problem with my wav file.I had a folder in which all my wav files were placed.One day that folder became a file with no extension's, possibly because of virus.

Somehow I managed to get that file back to folder but the wav files in it are not working.It says invalid file type when I try to play it in winamp & other media players.

Pls help me out.Those file are very important.Pls can anyone help.

[Viktoria]

Hi
I am having very big problem with my wav file.I had a folder in which all my wav files were placed.One day that folder became a file with no extension's, possibly because of virus.

Somehow I managed to get that file back to folder but the wav files in it are not working.It says invalid file type when I try to play it in winamp & other media players.

Pls help me out.Those file are very important.Pls can anyone help.

I am not sure exactly what your file extensions to your.wav files now are, but if they are still .wav, try moving them out of the original folder, and trashing the empty folder. Then reformat the files in .wav format.....which will decompress them again, and hopefull restore them.
Acoustica puts out a good program for doing this if you don't have one.
If that succeeds, then perhaps keeping them in WMA format may help protect them.

I used to keep many files in .wav format but discovered that they can corrupt quite easily, and I once solved a problem in the manner I have described to you.

I am hoping you have already tested them for Virii? If not, you have to do that first. It may also not be ALL the files.

Hope that helps,
Viktoria

[actionman]

Hi can you tell me the way in datails Pls.Also did you mean Acoustica software.

Yes my files are still in wav format.When I try to play it in windows media player it says no codecs found.ut I saved those wav files uncompressed.
It seems you can help me Viktoria.

Thanx

[Viktoria]

Originally posted by actionman
Hi can you tell me the way in datails Pls.Also did you mean Acoustica software.

Yes my files are still in wav format.When I try to play it in windows media player it says no codecs found.ut I saved those wav files uncompressed.
It seems you can help me Viktoria.

Thanx

Hi Actionman,

Apologies for my later reply. I am presuming these are you own music files as they are in .wav format. If so, always keep a back up of the back up

It could be another problem. You "could" have a corrupted WMP, although if they won't play in winamp, I cannot see that being the answer.

Get a program like this one-:
Converter

Take all of your .wav files OUT of that folder and trash the folder. Place the music in a new folder. Convert them all to WMA files. The program above will tell you how. Usually it's a right click and done.

Then see if they have extensions of say "music.wma"...
If so, try to play one in WMP. If it plays, you can then convert it back to .wav file with the same program. Most of these programs "normalize" music as they work. You could try a free .wav to .mp3 converter, but I would be concerned over what could happen there.

I hope this helps. Have you tried to give them an extension by renaming? I know this can be tricky with music files, and you must keep withing legal bounds as well, but changing the format is perfectly within reason.

If they have .wma extensions one way or another, and they won't play in WMP, then take a look at whether WMP is corrupt. I'd think about getting WMP 10 if I were you. It's a good tool.

Please let us know how you go.

~Viktoria