Re: [microsound] lag tunes ?

[Greg <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i have been working on a rather primitive shareware program "Goldwave"
> i had a track approx.  5 minutes in length, i went to save, my computer
> gave me an error, so the save failed i got pisse and turned off my
> computer.  this afternoon working again at the computer i notice the file
> that i had attempted to save and (i thought) failed, was sitting in its
> folder.  i opened it up to find one hundred and fortry minutes of static
> and tones!!  the file is only taking up about 50 mgb, and is opened as a
> pcm file,
> but i can only open it through "Goldwave"
> it iss pretty amazing, and i am wondering if my original 5 minute file
> (stretched waaaay out an completely screwed up) is the source material
> for this new collaberation between my computer and i!

This has happened to me on a number of occasions. What is happening is that
during the rendering of the file, the corruption/crash has left pcm wave
information out of the header. When you reopen the file as pcm, it is
reading raw data. the results are really noisy.

g.