MP3 plays but no sound or cuts out partway.
An MP3 that plays with no sound or cuts out partway may have damaged frame boundaries or a truncated stream. Upload it for analysis and hear a free preview first if FileFix can produce a playable result.
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A healthy video recorded on the same device — ideally the same settings — gives the repair engine a template to rebuild from. It can unlock repairs that fail on their own.
Unrepaired files are kept encrypted for up to 30 days, then deleted.
FileFix can't fix that kind of file yet.
Right now we repair video, audio, document, and image files (MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, AVI, TS, MTS, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, WebM, FLV, M4A, WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, AIFF, XLSX, DOCX, PPTX, ODT, ZIP, RAR, PDF, AI, HEIC, and HEIF). We're adding support for more formats over time.
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Why an MP3 has no sound or cuts out
A damaged or incomplete MP3 can make a player lose its place in the recording. Playback may stop partway or produce no usable sound, even when some audio is still there.
FileFix looks for playable audio beyond the damaged part and keeps what it can recover. Sound missing from the file cannot be recreated, so the repaired recording may have gaps or end early.
FileFix analyzes the uploaded MP3 and only offers checkout when it produces a playable result. You hear the recovered preview first; genuinely empty, deleted, or DRM-protected files cannot be repaired.
What we can and can't fix
We can usually fix
- MP3 files that play with no sound or cut out partway after damage to frame boundaries or a truncated stream.
We can't fix
- Genuinely empty files, deleted files, or DRM-protected tracks from a music store. More →
How it works
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Upload Drop a supported audio file in. It uploads over an encrypted connection. The repair runs automatically — no person listens to your file.
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Free watermarked preview You hear a free watermarked preview clip and see exactly how much we recovered.
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Pay & download If it's right, you pay $8 USD once and download a clean, full-quality audio file.
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See what's recoverable.
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Questions
The MP3 may contain damaged or missing frame data, inconsistent frame headers, or non-audio bytes where the player expects the stream to continue. A player can open the file yet stop or produce silence when decoding reaches that damage.
Only if readable MP3 frames remain in the uploaded bytes. The preview lets you hear the recovered result and judge where usable audio resumes or ends before checkout.
No. FileFix can rebuild around audio frames that are still present, but it cannot invent sound that was never saved or was removed when the file was truncated.
A one-time $8 USD — and only if the repair works. Seeing what was recovered is free, and checkout is only offered when the engine produces a validated repaired file.