Audio file confusion

aisle9 · November 1, 2016

So I have an audio file that I mixed together by combining four different ones. Not my first time doing this, won't be my last. Said file makes it to about 1:09, when the second file kicks in, then the audio drops out entirely for five seconds before coming back. The rest of the file plays without incident.

Normally I'd say bad encode, right? But here's where things get weird: it errors in iTunes on this computer. The .wav file it started life as errors in Windows Media Play, iTunes and SoundForge...on this computer.

On my phone? On an iPod? On a different computer? No issues whatsoever. It's only on this PC that the audio drops out of the file. Any ideas what's going on and how to fix it? I've already reinstalled iTunes, re-converted the raw .wav to ALAC, so far no dice. I'm hopelessly confused.

November 1, 2016

Know close to nothing about this subject, but a codec problem? (sometimes audio and video don't meet up, or audio flips, reinstalling codecs fixes the problem usually...)

aisle9 · November 1, 2016

Just now, Dutch-stoner said:

Know close to nothing about this subject, but a codec problem? (sometimes audio and video don't meet up, or audio flips, reinstalling codecs fixes the problem usually...)

That's kind of what I was thinking, but wouldn't it affect the other devices, especially the other computer with the same OS?

November 1, 2016

If the file got encoded with "special software to use codec X", the file got created correctly. Playing the file afterwards will require the codecs to decode the encoded file. (right? Or did I swap decode/encode...) My gues would be that the problem is there. With the playback. Not witht he encoding. (right? Or did I swap things again...) Also, if someone else with a (desktop) computer does not encounter your problems, it's really something with your pc. (I do not want to listen to your audio file)

aisle9 · November 1, 2016

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

If the file got encoded with "special software to use codec X", the file got created correctly. Playing the file afterwards will require the codecs to decode the encoded file. (right? Or did I swap decode/encode...) My gues would be that the problem is there. With the playback. Not witht he encoding. (right? Or did I swap things again...) Also, if someone else with a (desktop) computer does not encounter your problems, it's really something with your pc. (I do not want to listen to your audio file)

That's cool. The .wav is 65MB. I wouldn't ask you to lol

I've tested it out on a second computer, but tracking down the original .wav of the final mix, moving it into iTunes directly and letting iTunes do the converting seems to have solved it for now. Now, the five other files based on this one that I don't have the original .wavs for...