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)