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**epos159** · 08-06-2006, 09:17 PM

Hi! I am hoping that there is some way to salvage a file that I created today. We record to CD our church service, and we also broadcast (audio) live (which I also archive as I'm recording). Today during the service we had a power surge. Our CD recorder said that the disk was damaged, and I was hoping to be able to throw the CD into the computer and finalize it. However, the PC says that there is nothing on the CD at all

. So I decided to check the archive (which is at a horrible 32k... The file is there, but since it was cut off it never "finalized". I can listen to the file, but I can't "seek" through the track nor can I burn it as an audio CD because the programs I've tried to use say that it cannot open it or that it cannot determine the length of the audio.

They are saved as .wma, and I tried to convert it to another file type which did absolutely nothing. I tried to play it in Windows Media Player to see if after playing it Media Player would recognize the length of it. All of this to no avail. Is there anything that I can try to save either the CD or the audio file?

Thanks in advance for the help!

08-06-2006, 09:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
epos159 I helped the forums. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: PA Posts: 562 OS: Windows XP Home	Audio File Corrupted due to power surge Hi! I am hoping that there is some way to salvage a file that I created today. We record to CD our church service, and we also broadcast (audio) live (which I also archive as I'm recording). Today during the service we had a power surge. Our CD recorder said that the disk was damaged, and I was hoping to be able to throw the CD into the computer and finalize it. However, the PC says that there is nothing on the CD at all . So I decided to check the archive (which is at a horrible 32k... The file is there, but since it was cut off it never "finalized". I can listen to the file, but I can't "seek" through the track nor can I burn it as an audio CD because the programs I've tried to use say that it cannot open it or that it cannot determine the length of the audio. They are saved as .wma, and I tried to convert it to another file type which did absolutely nothing. I tried to play it in Windows Media Player to see if after playing it Media Player would recognize the length of it. All of this to no avail. Is there anything that I can try to save either the CD or the audio file? Thanks in advance for the help!