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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)