Technical Difficulties - my voice recorder failed me

[spritom]

I've got several voice recorders that I've collected and I have used them many thousands of times. And each one has been invaluable in varying situations with NJ going on rants or catching her in lies. Sometimes it's just documentation, other times it is something to be used.

Up and recording fine as usual
I had an older MP3 voice recorder with me this weekend and it was running when NJ went on a classic wig-a-thon in front of the children during an exchange. Upon leaving the exchange, I pulled out the recorder, it was still going, and I stopped it like I have a thousand times before and turned it off, just like always.

Playback of the file, not so fine
At home, I copied the files off the MP3 recorder. 2 files were short ones from phone calls and the 3rd was the NJ's rant. Only thing is...the sound file of the 3rd file is corrupted, while the 1st 2 files are fine.

Windows Media Player, Sound Recorder, VLC, Audacity, Wave Agent, nothing gets me the recording. It either won't play or I get random screech sounds (non-NJ-screech sounds). Even playback from the device itself or some apps on Linux can't read the file.

*sigh*
No, not the end of the world on this one as there's other steps to address w/NJ. It's not the first rodeo for this clown sidestepping the bulls.

Lessons Learned
Oh well, chalk it up to experience, but that MP3 device is now retired.
This is the device:
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-512-MP3-P ... B00066EK3G
Mine is about 6 years old and was about $100 back then. Money well-spent at the time, but mechanical devices can and do fail.

I remember a teacher in a class talking about mechanical devices:
If you have 2, you have 1
If you have 1, you have none

[miamorefreckles]

I use my phone to record my calls and as a voice recorder. It saves it in a 3gpp format. Not the most friendly format to give my attorney. But I use software called Goldwave to convert it to an MP3.

You might want to try that to see if it will play, it has some other tools that you might be able to either recover or clean up the audio. I think it is free for 30 days or something like that.