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How to repair MP4 audio files?

MP4 is a container file format which is used to store any multimedia files ranging from audio clips, video clips, sub-titles and animated items. It uses different compression formats for storing audio and video files separately. MP4 audio quality is far better and clear compared to MP3 audio files. MP4 audio files take lesser space on your hard drive than MP3. MP4 audio files are saved as .m4a file extension. MP4 audio files are commonly known as AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). It is an encoding scheme for digital audio. With the help of AAC, MP4 audio files take less space in system hard drive and produces magnificent sound effect. AAC provides better quality to MP4 audio files. The reasons behind its popularity are as follows:

It is supported by latest technologies such as PSP and iPods
It is one of the common audio formats played by today’s smart phones
It is supported by popular easy to use iTunes


Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64-bit), Lion 10.7 (64-bit)

Due to the above mentioned reasons, MP4 audio files are preferred by almost everyone from all over the world. But like any other file format, MP4 audio file also get damaged under many circumstances. There are many scenarios that are responsible for MP4 audio file corruption. Some of the most important scenarios are mentioned below:

Altering file format: If you try to alter MP4 audio file format to another format can also corrupt your MP4 audio files. You can easily convert it by using third party software but sometimes if anything goes wrong during conversion process then your MP4 audio file is likely to get damaged. Using inappropriate third party application and improper method of changing file extension can also damage your MP4 audio file. Once it gets corrupted you will face many problems in accessing it.

Opening with an inappropriate media player: Normally, You can easily play MP4 audio file with Apple Quick Time Player, Apple iTunes, VideoLAN VLC media player, Eltima Elmedia. But if you try to play it with an unsupportable player then your MP4 audio file might get corrupt and refuses to open under any condition. Unsupportable player can alter the file structure of a particular MP4 audio file and makes it unusable and inaccessible for further use.

Incomplete file transfer: If your MP4 audio file gets partly transferred from one media storage device to another can be responsible for file corruption. Incomplete file gets transferred only when there is some disturbance like power fluctuation, abnormal system shut down, virus attack or because of hard disk failure. If the condition of your storage device is not proper and having some kind of damage then in that case your file will get transferred incompletely. Due to this your MP4 audio file might get corrupt.


Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64-bit), Lion 10.7 (64-bit)

These are some of the most important scenarios which are accountable for damaging your MP4 audio files severely. It is essential that you always keep a back up of each and every file in order to avoid this frustrating situation. In case of emergency, if MP4 audio file gets corrupted and if you have a backup of that file then in that case you can easily use it for an emergency purpose. But if you don’t have the backup option available with you then it is required that you should take the help of professional and reliable MP4 audio file repairing software. Remo Repair MOV is the best MP4 audio/video file repairing software. It is very efficient in repairing all damaged and corrupted audio and video MP4 files. With the help of this utility, you can safely repair corrupt MP4 file in a systematic manner. It can easily repairs most common file extensions of both audio and video files respectively such as Audio – Audio, RAW, mp4a and Video - avc1, mp4v, mjpeg.

However, you can repair MP4 files on Mac because this software is compatible with all the latest versions of Mac OS such as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64-bit) and Lion 10.7 (64-bit). With the help of this tool, you can repair damaged MP4 movie files and preview them at end of repair process. and Not only this, it is also capable of also capable of repairing damaged MP4 files which has been unexpectedly finalized by the camera due to defective firmware. Therefore, by the help of this astonish MP4 file repairing software, you can proficiently repair MP4 files irrespective whether it is audio file or video file.

Steps to repair MP4 audio files after corruption:

Step1:Download and Install free version of this software and launch it by double clicking on the desktop shortcut or use the Start Menu to launch the software. After launching it, the software starts processing where you will see the main window of the application as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 : Main window

Step 2: In the second stage, you need to select your corrupted MP4 file by clicking on Open button. Click on "Open" button, to find and select the corrupted MP4 file that needs to be repaired. Once you select the desired file, click on "Repair" button so that you can commence the repair process as soon as possible as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 : File selection screen shot


Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64-bit), Lion 10.7 (64-bit)

Step 3: A separate window will pop-up where you can easily see the flow and progress of the repairing process as shown in Figure 3

Figure 3 : Repairing process window

Step 4: Later, you can preview your repaired file as soon as the repair proces gets over. Just click on "Preview repaired file" option for previewing details about your repaired file as shown in Figure 4

Figure 4 : Final step - Preview window


Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64-bit), Lion 10.7 (64-bit)