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By cyber7 Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:41 pm
Good afternoon
I am trying to open a wav file that plays in all applications fine without luck into the MPC ONE or the MPC Windows software.

I am running the latest 2.10 release. What can I do?
Here is the MEGA link if anyone is interested - it is just a bass loop, 1.7mb:
https://mega.nz/file/fkQm0L4C#7NjTGjx7H ... H6vkM135lo

kind regards
cyber7
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By MPC-Tutor Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:04 pm
I've re-saved it in Adobe Audition with 'save with meta data' unchecked and it loads fine now. I suspect it was created in an application that adds some non-standard headers that the MPC just doesn't like. I seem to remember there was a topic about this a few weeks ago, I can't remember what the problematic app was. So basically if you get a file like this re-save it in an app that let's you strip out all the superfluous data that may have been added previously. Here's the re-saved file (temporary link, download it asap)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8akhh11ilbobj ... T.wav?dl=1
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By cyber7 Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:04 am
Thank you for the file. I do, however have a problem with the original file. I tried to use "MP3TAG" to remove all an any tags, but there were none. I believe the format to be incorrect. If I use GSpot (don't blame me for the name) the codec shows as "0xfffe (Extensible wave format)".

Is there a way that I can 'batch convert" these files? I seem to have found quite a couple of them...
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By cyber7 Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:57 am
ps - is there anywhere I can look at a log file to see what the MPC software is not liking?
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By MPC-Tutor Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:18 am
I found the topic where we identified this, this was specifically about files downloaded from Bandcamp, but I suspect others may also be doing something similar:

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=211783&p=1834229

Re-saving in Audition probably removes the non-standard headers automatically. I suspect plenty of other audio applications will do the same, perhaps look at Audacity. But there is this if you are comfortable with Python:

https://github.com/ckbaudio/WavPatcher
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By cyber7 Wed Sep 15, 2021 12:27 pm
Thank you - the samples are from Black Octopus. I will look at the python script tonight as the samples reside on a linux machine...

PS - Running this tool worked like a charm! Thank you!