Old Analog Guy wrote:

I've recorded an air check that's behaving oddly. It's recorded in
Cool Edit 2000 and the problem., as best I can describe it, is that
the audio isn't in sequence. It goes along normally for a few seconds
and then I hear some audio that's sort of "from the future," after a
couple of more seconds of ordinary audio I get a gap, which is where
the "audio from the future" came from.

It's as if a gremlin has edited random sections and placed them a few
seconds earlier in the file. If you're listening to it it sounds like,
"And now we {Texas} go to Joe Blow in {} for that story." Where the
part in curly braces is placed in an earlier part of the file. This
happens hundreds or thousands of times in a 5 hour air check.

Now the computer crashed during the air check. But the crash happened
at the end of the recording. And the problem starts at the very
beginning of the recording, hours before the crash. As a consequence
of the crash the file was never saved. I know that Cool Edit 2000
records a temporary file in something like "raw" format and I've been
trying to recover from that, but I always get this odd time warp
stuff.

What I did was go in after the crash and rename the big temp file that
Cool Edit 2000 had made. Then I've been trying to open this file.

Does anyone know any arcane tricks for recovering the raw temp files
from Cool Edit 2000? Is my problem that I'm just not recovering the
file in the correct format or is this likely just how the audio is
now? Will a computer crash always cause something like this, even when
the beginning of the file should have been all right? Or is this
strange time warp stuff not even related to the crash?

Airchecking on Scullys was never like this!

Thanks for any advice
An Old Analog Guy (slowly adapting)
Which version of Windows are you using? I had CoolEdit 2000 1.1 on a
Win98 PC and if it crashed, that's it. All was gone. When I upgraded my
DAW, also running CoolEdit 2K 1.1, but now on WinXP, if my machine
crashed, the temp file was always fully recovered.

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