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Help repairing digital errors in a song

martinradio

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Hello, someone has sent me a digitization of a cassette tape album, it's 40 minutes long, but at times you can hear this garbled digital artifact, which sounds like they had the wrong settings for sample rate when they recorded it, here is an example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17KV6RxIvoxsgB7QFS1GI5Cvqaul2YjG3/view?usp=sharing

The issue only appears 6/7 times throughout the whole recording, the rest of the recording is fine:

Is there any tool I could use to replace/fix/improve these segments with garbled audio? Such as train an ai model on all the good parts of the recording, and use that to replace the isolated segments where this problem appears?

It sounds like a very digital garbled error, can anyone help me in identifying the exact error?

Thanks
 
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Hello, someone has sent me a digitization of a cassette tape album, it's 40 minutes long, but at times you can hear this garbled digital artifact, which sounds like they had the wrong settings for sample rate when they recorded it, here is an example: https://jumpshare.com/s/WqvKeTSQlsW9Aqnq07YB
That link doesn't work for me, says the file has been deleted or moved.
The issue only appears 6/7 times throughout the whole recording, the rest of the recording is fine:
Would be helpful to provide some timestamps of where the issue occurs.

I assume there is no possibility of the person who sent this to you redoing the digitization of the cassette while taking care to prevent these errors in the first place?
 
Terribly sorry about the 404 link, here is a corrected one:

And it seems like no chance of getting a re-rip at the moment, which is terribly sad
 
That link doesn't work for me, says the file has been deleted or moved.

Would be helpful to provide some timestamps of where the issue occurs.

I assume there is no possibility of the person who sent this to you redoing the digitization of the cassette while taking care to prevent these errors in the first place?
You can hear some sample of the errors in the youtube video at 4:03, 15:40, 36:42
 
Thats awful. Because its so intermitent it sounds like a broken connector(solder joint)/cable to me. I hear some of the new plug-ins are pretty amazing at cleaning up audio, and it would be amazing if they cleaned that up.
 
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