# 666ab731.wav download audit

## Result

The file supplied as `666ab731.wav` is not a damaged WAV and cannot be
repaired by changing its extension or codec. It is an HTML response from
the current Instaudio front page. It has no `RIFF` / `WAVE` container
header and no audio bytes to inspect with a spectrogram.

The retained 2017 page proves that the historical upload was a separate
1:53.152 WAV at `https://instaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/live/private/7fa2c325c0a7395c8856c5bb4f11b5616c6f60c5.wav`. The 27 July 2026 saved
S3 headers return `HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found`. The original bytes remain
unrecovered; the repository's playable file is therefore a separately
labelled timing-only reconstruction from the published duration transcript.

## Supplied download

- Path: `solution/audio/666ab731-download-20260727.html`
- Bytes: `4210`
- SHA-256: `0cf90f82f54107abaa176ae8f67db0415ace997aa01f30a4244f80de710cd143`
- Initial bytes: `<!DOCTYPE html>`
- HTML title: `Instaudio Audio Hosting - Share your audio quickly and for free`
- RIFF/WAVE header: `False`

## Historical page

- Saved HTML: `solution/audio/instaudio-page-20170705.html`
- SHA-256: `13d9286f92aebb49dda8e6a8d94112ead65912598c4bb1b84576b2aef53004cc`
- Page title: `666ab731 - Instaudio`
- Advertised download name: `666ab731.wav`
- Advertised duration: `113152 ms`
- Advertised size: `1.73 MB WAV`
- Memento: <https://web.archive.org/web/20170705042639id_/https://instaud.io/private/7fa2c325c0a7395c8856c5bb4f11b5616c6f60c5>

## Boundary

HTML content cannot be transformed into the missing WAV. A recovered copy
would need to begin with a valid RIFF/WAVE header and have independently
verifiable bytes; until then it is incorrect to call the reconstruction
the original recording.
