patching together audacity temp files

Professional audio recording and studio engineering, post #46,179
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 finding z0
 2008-07-12 08:48:11
 patching together audacity temp files
OK let's admit up front I'm a moron.

I recorded a webstream (my daughter hosted a radio show) using
audacity. Since she was on 3 hours(midnight to 3AM) after about an
hour as I was nodding out in front of the rig, I decided to let the
thing go to 3AM and have the sys shut itself down, forgetting audacity
files need to be saved manually b4 shutting down. With usenet help, I
found 3585 1 Mb sound files that audacity saved in a temp folder. If I
select all of them and use audacity to play them, it will play each
file separately, disconnected. How do I fuse them into one piece w/o
running out of lifetime to do it in? If it is possible, and you know
the answer, please reread the 1st sentence and respond acordingly.
Cheers
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 Nil
 2008-07-12 11:34:56
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in
rec.audio.pro:

> I recorded a webstream (my daughter hosted a radio show) using
> audacity. Since she was on 3 hours(midnight to 3AM) after about an
> hour as I was nodding out in front of the rig, I decided to let
> the thing go to 3AM and have the sys shut itself down, forgetting
> audacity files need to be saved manually b4 shutting down. With
> usenet help, I found 3585 1 Mb sound files that audacity saved in
> a temp folder. If I select all of them and use audacity to play
> them, it will play each file separately, disconnected. How do I
> fuse them into one piece w/o running out of lifetime to do it in?
> If it is possible, and you know the answer, please reread the 1st
> sentence and respond acordingly. Cheers

You don't give enough information to give a firm answer, so I'll assume
Microsoft Windows.

What format are they in?

What are the file names?

If the format is WAV or AIFF, and the files are named strictly
consecutively, you could use the command line utility SHNTOOL to join
them together with the command

SHNTOOL JOIN *.WAV

If the files aren't WAV, you might be able to use the utility SOX to
convert them

I would operate on copies of the files, in case something unexpected
happens. I think WAV files have a size limit, so maybe operate in
batches to make three or four large file rather then one huge one.
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Subject:
 finding z0
 2008-07-12 09:46:16
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On Jul 12, 12:34 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in
> rec.audio.pro:
>
> > I recorded a webstream (my daughter hosted a radio show) using
> > audacity. Since she was on 3 hours(midnight to 3AM) after about an
> > hour as I was nodding out in front of the rig, I decided to let
> > the thing go to 3AM and have the sys shut itself down, forgetting
> > audacity files need to be saved manually b4 shutting down. With
> > usenet help, I found 3585 1 Mb sound files that audacity saved in
> > a temp folder. If I select all of them and use audacity to play
> > them, it will play each file separately, disconnected. How do I
> > fuse them into one piece w/o running out of lifetime to do it in?
> > If it is possible, and you know the answer, please reread the 1st
> > sentence and respond acordingly. Cheers
>
> You don't give enough information to give a firm answer, so I'll assume
> Microsoft Windows.
>
> What format are they in?
>
> What are the file names?
>
> If the format is WAV or AIFF, and the files are named strictly
> consecutively, you could use the command line utility SHNTOOL to join
> them together with the command
>
> SHNTOOL JOIN *.WAV
>
> If the files aren't WAV, you might be able to use the utility SOX to
> convert them
>
> I would operate on copies of the files, in case something unexpected
> happens. I think WAV files have a size limit, so maybe operate in
> batches to make three or four large file rather then one huge one.

Yes, Windows. They have names lilke b00000 consecutively to b03585.
When I right-click/properties they are identified as AU sound format.
This, only after I changed the app to open them, from
WMP(unrecognized) to Audacity. They streamed originally thru WMP.
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 Nil
 2008-07-12 12:30:59
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in rec.audio.pro:

> Yes, Windows. They have names lilke b00000 consecutively to
> b03585. When I right-click/properties they are identified as AU
> sound format. This, only after I changed the app to open them,
> from WMP(unrecognized) to Audacity. They streamed originally thru
> WMP.

OK, then I'd use sox (available at <http://sox.sourceforge.net/>) to
convert them to WAV. Then I'd use shntool
(http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/) to join them together. I'd work in
batches and save the originals aside as backups.
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 finding z0
 2008-07-12 11:06:15
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On Jul 12, 1:30 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in rec.audio.pro:
>
> > Yes, Windows. They have names lilke b00000 consecutively to
> > b03585. When I right-click/properties they are identified as AU
> > sound format. This, only after I changed the app to open them,
> > from WMP(unrecognized) to Audacity. They streamed originally thru
> > WMP.
>
> OK, then I'd use sox (available at <http://sox.sourceforge.net/>) to
> convert them to WAV. Then I'd use shntool
> (http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/) to join them together. I'd work in
> batches and save the originals aside as backups.

Thx, i'll give it a try.
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 finding z0
 2008-07-12 11:12:12
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On Jul 12, 1:30 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in rec.audio.pro:
>
> > Yes, Windows. They have names lilke b00000 consecutively to
> > b03585. When I right-click/properties they are identified as AU
> > sound format. This, only after I changed the app to open them,
> > from WMP(unrecognized) to Audacity. They streamed originally thru
> > WMP.
>
> OK, then I'd use sox (available at <http://sox.sourceforge.net/>) to
> convert them to WAV. Then I'd use shntool
> (http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/) to join them together. I'd work in
> batches and save the originals aside as backups.

OOPs, w/o a windows interface, I need a guide to use command prompt
utilities....
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 Nil
 2008-07-12 16:27:11
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in rec.audio.pro:

> On Jul 12, 1:30 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net>
> wrote:
>> OK, then I'd use sox (available at <http://sox.sourceforge.net/>)
>> to convert them to WAV. Then I'd use shntool
>> (http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/) to join them together. I'd
>> work in batches and save the originals aside as backups.
>
> OOPs, w/o a windows interface, I need a guide to use command
> prompt utilities....

Sorry, but I don't have time to lead you through this, and there are
too many points where things are likely to go wrong.

Check out this page, that has some possible methods of recovering:

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery

One thing that looked promising was "Aud_Recover command-line recovery
utility", but I couldn't get it to work.

Good luck.
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Subject:
 finding z0
 2008-07-12 15:47:41
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On Jul 12, 5:27 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in rec.audio.pro:
>
> > On Jul 12, 1:30 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >> OK, then I'd use sox (available at <http://sox.sourceforge.net/>)
> >> to convert them to WAV. Then I'd use shntool
> >> (http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/) to join them together. I'd
> >> work in batches and save the originals aside as backups.
>
> > OOPs, w/o a windows interface, I need a guide to use command
> > prompt utilities....
>
> Sorry, but I don't have time to lead you through this, and there are
> too many points where things are likely to go wrong.
>
> Check out this page, that has some possible methods of recovering:
>
> http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery
>
> One thing that looked promising was "Aud_Recover command-line recovery
> utility", but I couldn't get it to work.
>
> Good luck.

thanks Cox and Nil, I'm workin it right now.I'll let u know how it
goes. (using Aud crash recovery utility)
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Subject:
 finding z0
 2008-07-12 17:29:07
 Re: patching together audacity temp files
On Jul 12, 5:27 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2008, finding z0 <[email protected]> wrote in rec.audio.pro:
>
> > On Jul 12, 1:30 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >> OK, then I'd use sox (available at <http://sox.sourceforge.net/>)
> >> to convert them to WAV. Then I'd use shntool
> >> (http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/) to join them together. I'd
> >> work in batches and save the originals aside as backups.
>
> > OOPs, w/o a windows interface, I need a guide to use command
> > prompt utilities....
>
> Sorry, but I don't have time to lead you through this, and there are
> too many points where things are likely to go wrong.
>
> Check out this page, that has some possible methods of recovering:
>
> http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery
>
> One thing that looked promising was "Aud_Recover command-line recovery
> utility", but I couldn't get it to work.
>
> Good luck.

Gents, it works great!!! Thanks for the heads up!!!
Then my daughter tells me today that the station gave her (at least
her sidekick) a cd of the show, but I can now give her her own copy.