[MusicTlk] Any good Hex Editors?

[Steve Jacobson]

There are some Hex Editors out there, such as UltraEdit which is an editor I
use.  That particular editor is not free, I think around $80, but it has a
demonstration period that would give you a chance to check it out.  In the
case of UltraEdit, it tries displaying all of the values as characters which
is NotePad++ is doing for you, but there is a key that changes the view to
"Hex" view.  Actually, I was thinking that NotePad++ had this ability as
well, though.  When you are in Hex mode, the values in your file are
displayed as two digit hexadecimal characters that have values from 0-9 and
then A-F.  Therefore, changing a specific value can only be done if you have
a very good idea of what needs to be changed and how to find it.  Also, WAV
files are large, so any editor you use will have to be able to handle files
that are large.

Good luck.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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From: MusicTlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Annabelle
Susan Morison via MusicTlk
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 11:26 PM
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Cc: Annabelle Susan Morison <foristnights at comcast.net>
Subject: [MusicTlk] Any good Hex Editors?

Hi, it's Annabelle.
I found something interesting on the Internet, about how to fix broken .wav
files that won't open in any players. Someone named Scott Hanselman said
something about using a binary file editor, specifically a Hex editor, to
fix the headers. However, I'm not sure where I can find any good Hex editors
that would work with JAWS. Anybody have any pointers? I've tried Notepad++,
but all I get when I read the file line-by-line is a bunch of weird code.
Here's an example of a .wav file that I've recently recovered, but when I
import it into Audacity as Raw data, unfortunately I get nothing but very
loud static. A teacher of mine told me that Hex editors are usually
sight-oriented, in other words, I would have to have sighted help to fix the
headers of a file that is presumably corrupted!