Repairing a FLAC file without properties

[HoltbyCity]

I've got a live recording that won't play. The file doesn't seem to have any properties (length, encoding etc).

I've tried opening in Audacity (and other software) as a raw file and tried guessing the encoding and byte order. I was kind of hoping I might eventually luck on the right combination and would then be able to export it. But it's never worked.

Does anyone have any suggestions about what to try with it to try and salvage the recording? I can even give a link to it if anyone with good technical understanding wants to have a look at the file itself.

Any advice would be really appreciated. If it is ultimately salvageable I will obviously seed it

[LeifH12345]

Have you tried to decode the files via TLH or some other decoder? That may be your best bet.

If the files are corrupted, there’s probably not much that can be done

Additionally, if your copy of audacity doesn’t have a flac extension, that may be your issue.

[pawel]

To check file integrity / errors:
flac -t file.flac
ffmpeg -v error -i file.flac -f null

[HoltbyCity]

Thanks - that's all really appreciated. I will try both of these suggestions and report back

[mwonter]

I had a problem like this a couple of years back. Turned out some app, forget which, appended ".ut" to the file name.