Default voice recorder app record files info question.

[Outerlimits777]

Ok so I've used my Note 4 with Android 6 for quite some time to record interviews using the default voice recorder app.

Now, and i know this is/was probably a mistake, I relied on the voice file creation timestamp to give me data regarding when the voice record was actually taken (you know when you click on a file's details and it returns "date modified").

Anyhoo... I flipping knew this was coming, but to free up space from my internal storage I transferred all the voice files to my sdcard. The problem is that now the timestamp for ALL the files is the date and time of that exact transfer (the aforementioned "date modified" data is now the same for all the files).

I was hoping that there's some metadata somewhere within each file that still retains that actual date and time of each file's creation, but I tried playing each voice file in a couple of different android media players and couldn't find any such metadata.

Am I screwed and an *****, or is the date of creation of each voice file still retrievable and I'm still an *****?

 

[VidJunky]

Seems odd that the original date would be wiped out like that but I've seen other programs that do similar stuff. There are metadata tools at the Play Store. I'm not sure if any of those would help but something like that may be your only hope.

Sorry I didn't have more pointed advice.

 

[ManiacJoe]

Standard Android file system behavior, copy a file (or move a file to a new storage device/card) does not preserve the old file dates. (Same problem on Mac computers while Windows computers preserve the file dates. It is an old religious debate by the OS developers.)

Audio files do not usually contain file data in their data sections. If the files were not named after their creation timestamps, then most likely the original file creation dates have been lost forever.

 

[VidJunky]

Audio files do not usually contain file data in their data sections. If the files were not named after their creation timestamps, then most likely the original file creation dates have been lost forever.

This caused me to think of something. If you didn't rename the files, the file name usually is some form of the date and time the file was created. I would imagine this already occurred to you but in case it didn't.