Understanding How the Audio Files Saved, Get Corrupted and Recovered

Learn how to handle audio files in a better way here and how to repair different formats of audio and recover them in case they are deleted or lost.

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In this article, we will explain how the audio files are saved on the computer, how it can get corrupted and how to recover corrupted audio files.

Audio wave signal is digitally saved on the computer in the form of frames and bytes. It is compressed using codecs to occupy less space.

Audio is stored into media containers in a structured way and if any of the information inside the container gets corrupted of removed the audio file cannot be played.

If you remove the alien data or restore the missing information inside the media container the audio file is fixed and become playable again.

If you are getting errors like “additional codecs are required” your audio file is not actually corrupted. Installing missing codecs will solve the problem.

Part 1. Situations, when your audio files can be corrupted, are:

Part 2. Use professional software to repair corrupted audio files

1. Repair damaged MP3 Files using MP3 Repair Tool

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If you need to repair MP3 files you can use simple and effective program MP3 Repair Tool.

Download the tool here.

  1. Run MP3 Repair Tool program.
  2. Browser and open the folder that contains the corrupt MP3 files.
  3. Click in the checkbox next to each MP3 file that you want to repair.
  4. Select the box next to Remove. Enter 1 as the number of frames to process.
  5. Click the Repair button.

MP3 Repair Tool will repair the files by removing single frames starting from the beginning.


2. Repair music files with All Media Fixer

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If you want to fix audio files other than mp3 try using All Media Fixer which supports formats like WMW, WMA, WAV, AVI, and MP3.

Download the tool here.

  1. Launch the program.
  2. Add the audio file that you want to fix.
  3. Just click Start check and fix.

It will fix the audio files that cannot be played or dragged.


3. Fix Music Files with VLC Media Player

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You can repair the WAV files using VLC media player’s convert tool.

Download VLC on this page. Follow the wizard and install the player.

  1. Go to WAV file that you want to fix; right-click and open it with VLC media player.
  2. Click the Convert / Save button.
  3. Click the Browse button and choose a folder to save the repaired audio file and add a new file name.
  4. Click the drop-down menu and select Audio – CD.
  5. Click the Start button.

Now check the new WAV file by playing in VLC media player.

If you cannot fix the audio files you can recover previously saved audio files from the hard drive using professional audio recovery software.

Part 3. Recover audio files using powerful Recoverit Audio Recovery software

Recoverit

Why Choose This Audio Recovery Software:

  • Recovers almost all major audio and music files like AVI, MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, MKV, MXF, WMV, ASF, FLV, SWF, MPEG, MPG, RM(RMVB), etc.
  • Deep scans the drive and recovered audio files with original quality and format.
  • Recovers audio deleted from the computer and any other storage device with the file system NTFS, FAT16, FAT32 or exFAT.
2,965,271 people have downloaded it

Step by step user guide:

Download the Recoverit to your computer. Follow the instruction for installing.

Step 1 Install and launch the program
Step 2 Select the disk to start scanning

Select the drive where you previously saved your audio files. Then click the “Start” button.

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Step 3 Scan for files

The scanning process will finish a scan in a few seconds.

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Step 4 Preview recoverable files

Now you can preview all the deleted files. Select the audio files that you want to recover and press "Recover".

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In case you are not able to recover your audio files using Data Recovery Mode, select "All-Around Recovery" mode which scans in-depth and recovers more data.

Conclusion:

Audio and video files can get corrupted easily due to the way the information is saved on a digital device. But fortunately, it can be repaired or recovered using professional software.

Elva

staff Editor

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