repairing a wav file?

[Charles McEnerney]

i have wav files that were recorded in pro tools (on a mac os 10.4.8, g4 ibook). pro tools is now saying the wav files are "unreadable." have tried opening it other apps (audacity, garageband, itunes, quicktime) and none will allow. i'm guessing the file is corrupted, but it is still 240 mb.

is there a way to scan and repair a wav file (on a mac) or other applications that i can try and open (and convert) it with?

charlie

[RadioMoo]

You might try to get in touch with Rail Jon Rogut who posts here a lot. He wrote an app called WAV Saver. He might be able to point you in the right direction. (He's also worked with the Grateful Dead, Richie Sambora and Van Halen.)

[jes]

two things: one is in Bias Peak Pro (and maybe the LE version?) there is an option to recover audio, which allows you to state the number of channels, bit depth, endianness and sampling rate, and then it just behaves as if it had a header all along. it works on things that lack headers, but:
the second thing i have noticed is that protools has on numerous occaisons corrupted wav files in my life (using mac) that when "recovered" were either entirely noise or otherwise random bits of audio from elsewhere, in other words the header file was written to include things that it shouldn't have included.
it has ruined several pieces of mine. very nasty.