New audio function in Lion
Hi all!
I found this useful new shell command in Lion: afconvert
I guess if it can be used to *repair* broken wav file.
Sometimes i have corrupted wav file which can be opened just as raw, but itunes won't play them, or i can't burn them
Just thinking if there's a way to use this command to do that, I'm tinkering with it since hours but still no results... :-(
thanks for the reply
Sometimes I have some audio files that (don't know why, maybe they were not closed properly while recording) are corrput. I can't see them in with iTunes ot Quicklook
BUT
if i open them with let's say Audacity, and import them as RAW i can listen to them, and exporting them as wav solves everything.
I was wondering if there is an automated process to do so. Applescript or Terminal...
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