Zoom H2 - First Problem

[mcdermott.rober]

Hey all.

I encountered my first issue with using the Zoom H2. I have a 4GB SD card, so I just let the thing run for rehersals and then cut up the wav file afterward. Usually I'll stop it at breaks just to have the files in managebele chunks.

For the first time, I forgot to stop it at breaks and ended up with one ~three hour wav file. Weighed in at about 1.2 GB.

When I tried to work with the file on my PC (I have an SD card "port"), it sees that there is a file, it even opens in WavPad, but it shows as 00:00:00 in length. It even loads immediately in WavPad, despite it's size, which is the first indication that there was something amiss.

The file is not important, just a rehersal, but I'm more concerend that it could happen again when something is important.

Any similar experiences? I'm leaning towards it having to do with the size of the wav file, but not sure. Maybe it was just an anomaly.

Thanks.

 

[Marcury]

Did you try copying the file to your hard drive and then opening?

 

[OtterOnBass]

Did you wait for the software to stop loading? I loaded some tapes to my old computer and had to wait about a half hour for the machine to stop loading. I started using smaller chunks after that. Thankfully I was just converting it to MP3, so each track only took about 35 minutes of waiting. 1.2 Gigs of sound is a huge load.

 

[mcdermott.rober]

Yes. It copied like a 1.2GB file, but exhibited the same behavior when opening it in WavPad. I also did try playing it in a handful of other media players, same behavior. A successful load but a zero length audio file.

 

[mcdermott.rober]

Yes. I had actually thought it was still loading, but the progress bar in WavePad never appears. It must have written and end of file marker right at the beginning of the WAV file for some odd reason.

 

[James Hart]

did you try playing it in winamp or the like?
have you tried any DAW software?

maybe WavPad (don't know the software) has a file size limitation?

 

[mcdermott.rober]

That's worth a try. It's very possible that WavePad has a limitation. But now that I think about it, I can't even listen to it on the Zoom. It just advances to the next file on the card.

I've successfully recorded subsequent rehersals in shorter chunks, so I'm hoping it was just a one time anomaly. I will definitely try DAW (CuBase) though, good suggestion.