How to Repair A Corrupt M4A File?

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M4A is the audio equivalent of the MP4 video file. It is created in Apple smartphones and is compressed with the Apple Lossless Encoder. To get a lossless compression, Apple uses the Apple Lossless Audio Codecs that give you high-quality audio files. The M4A file is playable in all media players including iTunes, Windows Media Player, VLC Player etc. Sometimes, there is a small chance that you will have to face a corrupt M4A file. Here are the circumstances in which you may face the issue of a corrupt the M4A file –

• You were taking an audio recording smoothly, but suddenly there was an incoming call, and it interrupted the recording. The recording did not get complete and the file became corrupt.
• You were receiving the M4A file through a sharing application like SHAREit, and the transfer was not complete.
• A malfunction in the mobile application has corrupted the recorded files.
• The M4A file has been altered slightly.
• The recording application crashed while recording.
• A virus attack has damaged the M4A files.
• Smartphones crashed due to a hardware problem like a battery issue

How to Repair a Corrupt M4A File?

Although there are some manual solutions like HEX editors, they are not safe and useful enough to handle any corruption. So, you should use professional software that can repair the M4A files. Kernel Video Repair is one such useful tool that can repair corrupt video files in all the major video formats including M4A audio files.

Let’s check the process of repairing an M4A file using Kernel Video Repair –

1. Start the software from the Applications menu. After starting the software, click the + button to choose the M4A file.



2. Go to the location of the M4A file, choose it, and click Open.



3. The tool will check the file and upload it. Then you need to click the Repair Files button.



4. Browse the saving location for the recovered file where you want to access the file after repairing it. Click OK.



5. The tool has repaired the file and saved it at your desired location. Click Close. Before closing the Software, you can save the report in the CSV file also.

It is a powerful video recovery tool with a simple user-interface and repairs videos in a few simple steps. It is efficient enough to repair the majority of the video formats like MP4, MOV, MPEG, MJPEG, MTS, M4V, MKV, AVI, AVCHD, WEBM, ASF, WMV, FLV, DIVX, 3G2, TS, 3GP, F4V, etc. some of the essential benefits of the Software are following;

• You can also repair MP4 Video file that is the foremost video format for the majority of the videos.
• It repairs all kind of videos files supported by Windows.
• There is no limitation to the size of the corrupt files. The software can repair an unlimited number of video files of any size.
• The level of corruption is not an issue for the Software as it can repair any crashed, broken, inaccessible, or corrupt video file.
• The software can repair videos from various smartphones, video recorders, and camcorders.
• There is a simple drag & drop facility to choose the video for the repair process. It helps to upload multiple video files at the same time.
• The video quality and content of the video remains the same during and after the recovery.
• The audio quality, aspect ratio, length, frame rate, etc. are several properties that are protected during the repair process.
• The corporate and technician version of the Software can repair the corrupt images also.

Conclusion

M4A files can become corrupt in different situations. Though you can try to fix video not playing issue easily with manual solutions, the results are not guaranteed. So, try Kernel for Video Repair to repair corrupt video files.