To anyone who knows ANYTHING about ZOOM digital recorders, specifically the H4n ...
Last Saturday I recorded a piano player at a party ... I just set the recorder up and let it run I think for 30 minutes or so - it may have been longer - ...
Yesterday I connected the Zoom to my iPOD dock and played all the tunes - sounded great -
I then connected the Zoom to my PC to D/L the song files ...
I've noticed that the first recording of any 'session' starts with a '.000' extension ... I played that and it was my volume test track so I deleted it ... I then D/L all the tracks to a folder on the PC ...
When I went to play the piano player's file I got an "Invalid File" message ... the track was recorded as an .mp3 as were all the others ... the rest played fine, but not the first one ?!?
I went to play the file on the Zoom and got the same message ... so now I cannot access this file ...
ANYONE have any ideas on this ... has it happened to any other users ???

thnx for your help,
t.

The file you deleted must have contained some information needed to play that file...

Thats all i can think off

Thanks for the reply Bachus ... I had thought of that and ran a test recording two files ... the first had the .000 extension ... I played both and then deleted the .000 file and the next file still played ...
t.

I have had files show up that way on the Pc before, recorded both with H4 and H2.
Never did figure out why. Also had to actually format the disk to get rid of some of them. Normal delete wouldn't work.
I'll be this helps a lot.
DonM

Here's an article on the Zoom site with reference to "Invalid Files".

http://www.2090.org/zoom/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=14366

Looks like a lot of readin'...hopefully there's something good there.


-mike

Mike... thanks for that link ... and you were right - a LOT of reading there, and most of it way over my head, technology wise ...
But I did post my problem, so I'll see what happens ...
thnx agn,
t.

Been using the Zoom's for a couple of years now, had an H4 on loan, got an H2, kept it a couple of years, sold it and got an H4n recently. I've never seen this problem. Admittedly, when I know I'm going to be recording for several hours or more non-stop, I'll use a high bitrate MP3 format, though.

Maybe that's the fix...

I do reformat my card before any big session, though. That might be part of it.