[DXLog.net - Support] Contest recorder and corrupt log

[Pete Lindsay]

Check for zero size mp3 file(s) and delete them..

Pete G4CLA.

On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, 18:25 Nick Lekic <nick.ve3ey at gmail.com wrote:

> While trying to configure the contest recorder in the latest DXlog I
> somehow managed to corrupt the log.    Two of them actually.
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> Now, whenever I attempt to launch either one of these logs the following
> exception is thrown out:    “MPEG audio header not found”.   At that point
> DXLog hangs and the only recourse is to kill the process from the task
> manager.   At this point even if I disable the recorder or restart the
> laptop, the logs are no longer accessible.
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> Chris:  is there a way to salvage them?    These are dummy logs but if
> this happens in the middle of CQ WW I am in trouble :-)
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> The problem appears to be related to K3s internal sound USB codec.   One
> radio is K3s and another radio is a classic K3.    I have attached an
> external USB sound (Sound Blaster)card so that I can feed the audio from
> both radios into a stereo line in input and use the Contest Recorder .   I
> don’t need the USB codec sound card as it does not help with the audio
> source from the other radio.
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> The K3s USB audio codec for some reason will override any recording device
> I select from the contest recorder.   This is not a DXlog problem.
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> I think I corrupted the log by trying to switch the default sound cards in
> the control panel while the recorder was still running.  Obviously I won’t
> be doing that any longer but I would like to find out how to recover the
> logs if by accident something like this happens again.
>
> 73. Nick
> VE3EY
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> Sent from my iPad
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