NAME

       sndfile-salvage  -  salvages  the  audio data from WAV or AIFF files which are bigger than
       four gigabytes

SYNOPSIS

       sndfile-salvage <broken WAV/AIFF file> <fixed W64 file>

DESCRIPTION

       File formats like WAV and AIFF contain a 32  bit  unsigned  value  in  the  headers  which
       indicates  the  size  of  the  file's  audio  data  chunk in bytes. Since this is a 32 bit
       unsigned value the largest value it can contain is 0xffffffff or just under 4 gigabytes.

       However, many programs allow much larger files to be written and  libsndfile,  by  default
       will  not  read  these  overly  large files. However this utility can salvage one of these
       overly large files and write the audio to a file  format  than  does  allow  more  than  4
       gigabytes of audio data.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>.

                                         February 3, 2014                      SNDFILE-SALVAGE(1)