weird problem: wav files getting mixed up

campersand · Post by **campersand** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:37 pm

This happened to me first in Sound Forge, now in Vegas. I'll record or mix a track one day, open it up again a couple weeks later and it'll have little bits of other wav files that I've recorded or edited interspersed throughout it.

So for example, let's say I'm listening back to a song I recorded last week. A minute or so into it, I hear a little snippet of a vocal part from a different song that I recorded yesterday. So I solo the guitar track and find that in the middle of that track, somehow this snippet has inserted itself. And it's in the actual wav file, I've tried opening it with different programs, closing it and opening it again, refreshing it, everything.

Anybody ever have this happen to them?

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:40 pm

Defrag your hard drive. Sounds like it's waaaaay overdue.

Phiz · Post by **Phiz** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:16 am

Something is seriously messed up with your DAW, OS or harddrive. I'd try checking your disk for bad sectors first, and if that doesn't find anything then wipe your drive and re-install everything.

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:17 am

defrag should not corrupt your files (or prevent file corruption). That would either be a bug in the OS or application, faulty hardware (anothing else getting corrupted or just audio files?) or some other driver/application that's mucking it up (antivirus? or some other filter driver that sits in the disk I/O path).

KFledman · Post by **KFledman** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:32 am

I had something similar to that happen a few years back on a Mac G4.....turned out it had something to do with itunes ......i think i removed itunes and whatever extensions were associated with it and things went back to normal........

qball · Post by **qball** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:48 pm

I've never had that happen or even heard of that before- and I've had some really bizarre things happen before. Do you create a seperate project folder for each project, or do you record to the same directory for every project?

campersand · Post by **campersand** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:09 pm

I defragged my hard drive right before posting about this yesterday and I ran scan disk today, which did catch and fix a few bad sectors. So we'll see what happens.

Each song has its own folder.

I opened up one of the files it had done this to and listened to the part that was messed up, and now it's just noise and pops, rather than part of the other wav file. Not sure if that's a good sign or bad.

thethingwiththestuff · Post by **thethingwiththestuff** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:31 pm

holy fuck, dude. you're scaring the shit out of me! i have never heard of this kind of problem.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:22 pm

thethingwiththestuff wrote:holy fuck, dude. you're scaring the shit out of me! i have never heard of this kind of problem.

Used to happen on Sonic Solutions all the time, we had all sorts of wonky things happen when the drives would need defragging, or if we were restoring from a damaged tape.

YOUR KONG · Post by **YOUR KONG** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:36 am

The songs are all in their own folder - and the file is grabbing files from that folder? Or is it straying?

This happens to me with Acid - the "take" numbers increase sequentially based on #'s are unused in the folder - but if I start to record "Take 356" in folder A but then switch to Folder B, and recorded takes 355-357 last week, it'll overwrite take 356 in folder b. Which is aggravating.

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:42 am

YOUR KONG wrote:This happens to me with Acid - the "take" numbers increase sequentially based on #'s are unused in the folder - but if I start to record "Take 356" in folder A but then switch to Folder B, and recorded takes 355-357 last week, it'll overwrite take 356 in folder b. Which is aggravating.

Oh wow, I erase all unused takes of everything immediately after a session. I couldn't live with all those takes sitting in there...yowza...

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