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Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by nanocloud » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:07 am

I am literally about to cry.

FL isn't letting me open up one of my tracks, and all I have that remains of it is an mp3 bounce I did last minute late last night. WHAT DO!? Is there any way I could turn that into a wav without a noticeable drop in quality? What do you guys think? Asking here because I'm worried about the technical issues with the song being in the wrong file format.

Did this basically kill any chance of my tune going on a good label or being taken seriously?

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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by wormcode » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:46 am

If it's a 320, it's not as good as a wav but it's somewhat close. Better than nothing. I wouldn't convert it though, instead play the MP3 and record it to wav via the stereo mix option in a DAW ('what you hear').
If it's lower quality than 320, I'd just live with it and take it as a lesson learned. A few project of mine from 7 or 8 years ago that I really wish I could work on or have a high quality render of because I like them a lot have been lost and all I have are 192Kbit MP3s. From now on only render 320 and wav.

You can try this, it has worked for a lot of people when it becomes corrupted from errors in the file headers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flprecovery/files/
I don't know if that still works on new versions, or if it has been updated... seems abandoned. You can also try to fix it yourself via a hex editor, I have successfully fixed corrupted files with header issues that way.

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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Maxxan » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:28 am

FL 10?

Go to your projects folder, back up a bit. There's one called 'Backup' (IIRC, can check at home) that autosaves every now and then. Unless you told it not to, in which case, derp, lol.
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Reversed » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:19 pm

Maxxan wrote:FL 10?

Go to your projects folder, back up a bit. There's one called 'Backup' (IIRC, can check at home) that autosaves every now and then. Unless you told it not to, in which case, derp, lol.
this. Also "Save as new version" every now and then helps in many cases, if you want to go back and do something differently etc ;)

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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by RandoRando » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:25 pm

delete the massive database file. google it.
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Sure_Fire » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:28 pm

I had the problem a while ago that one of my project files corrupted, and only found this out once I had worked on a bunch of other stuff, which then proceded override the backup of the one that actually got corrupted. Luckily I'd bounced most of the synths so that wasn't an issue...
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Electric_Head » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:30 pm

Assuming he's using Massive RandoRando.
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by AxeD » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:26 pm

Reason doesn't do this.
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Post by Disco Nutter » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:54 pm

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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Attila » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:07 pm

AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.
It's doesn't do anything else either ;-)

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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Hircine » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:18 pm

Attila wrote:
AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.
It's doesn't do anything else either ;-)
I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that :roll:
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Sure_Fire » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:34 pm

Hircine wrote:
Attila wrote:
AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.
It's doesn't do anything else either ;-)
I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that :roll:
Not to mention Kill the Noise :corndance:
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Electric_Head » Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:18 am

Let's not get into the DAW debate AGAIN!!!!
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by deadly_habit » Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:23 am

Sure_Fire wrote:
Hircine wrote:
Attila wrote:
AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.
It's doesn't do anything else either ;-)
I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that :roll:
Not to mention Kill the Noise :corndance:
think he's combo of reason and ableton atm
he used logic and reason pre ableton
ICR and The Widdler are other notable Reason users, but yea pointless facts

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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by Sexual_Chocolate » Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:26 am

Hircine wrote:
Attila wrote:
AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.
It's doesn't do anything else either ;-)
I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that :roll:
cokis been using logic for awhile, and icicle uses logic for his mixdown.
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Re: Corrupted Project File O_O

Post by deadly_habit » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:37 am

Nevalo wrote:
Hircine wrote:
Attila wrote:
AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.
It's doesn't do anything else either ;-)
I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that :roll:
cokis been using logic for awhile, and icicle uses logic for his mixdown.
most people who are reason heads use it for the synths since they learn them and another DAW for arrangement and mixdown

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