Force audio playback with specific settings?

[jamoo1980]

Hello,

I have two audio files, both of which were recorded directly to disk in the same recording session (i.e. same settings, same setup etc). One file is known-good and plays back perfectly in VLC. The other is corrupt and won't open in VLC. I'm looking for a way to recover the audio in the corrupt file.

The known good file shows the following under Codec Details in VLC:

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Stream 0 Codec: twos Language: English Type: Audio Channels: 1 Sample rate: 48000 Hz Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 768 kb/s Stream 1 Codec: twos Language: English Type: Audio Channels: 1 Sample rate: 48000 Hz Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 768 kb/s

Now, I suspect it's just the header information that's missing from the corrupt file, since I can import both files (known good and corrupt) into Audacity as RAW data and play them back. Why don't I just use Audacity to recover the corrupt file, you ask? Well - it doesn't import it correctly; no matter what settings I use there seems to be some weird interleaving problem (even with the known good file) that leaves the imported audio pretty much illegible.

So - here's my question. Is there a way I can force VLC to open and play back the corrupt file in exactly the same way that it opens and plays back the known-good file?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks
James

[jamoo1980]

... Just bumping this up again. Any ideas?
Thanks
James