[Ben Bradley[_2_]]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 04:00:46 -0700 (PDT), Gardner
wrote:

Hello Everybody,
I recently attempted to record a 12 hour DJ set with Sound Forge.
While exporting to mp3 sound forge crashed leaving an mp3 on the
desktop that was 4.7GB in size. The mp3 is not recognized by WMP,
Winamp, VLC, MPlayer, and Audacity thinks it can parse it but it just
infinitely increments the time to complete.

I opened the file up in a hex editor and it has an ID3 tag and
something that looks like a header. Unfortunately I am not familiar
enough with the binary mp3 format or header to determine if everything
looks good.

My hope is that some hardcore audiophile or a talented programmer will
be able to immediately see if there is a major issue:
https://spunts.com/beginning-of-corrupt.mp3

All of the DJs would like copies of the sets and it was a really
wicked party. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

It looks like a header and then PCM data (about 0.01 seconds worth
of header and 0.02 seconds worth of "audio" - at least it's a
reasonably flat straight line with a little noise in it). As a first
approximation you could copy it (to protect and keep the original) and
rename it to a .wav file and see if you can play that. If not, open it
as "raw PCM", 16-bit stereo 44kHz and see if that is playable. That's
how I opened the file in Cool Edit 2000 (okay, so I've got really old
software).


Regards,
Gardner