[linux-audio-user] Timemachine file playback problems

[Steve Harris]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:50:46PM -0700, Jos Laake wrote:
> 2) Why is 'timemachine' saving it's recordings in this unpopular
> file format?  And why does it call them '.wav' files if they're
> really '.w64' files?  Is it possible to get 'timemachine' to save
> out plain ol' '.wav' files so I can preview them without shutting
> down JACK to load 'Audacity'?

Because some people wanted to record files that are longer than 2GB, if
you're using 8 channels you hit that limit pretty quickly, but even for
stereo its a problem.

The .wav and not .w64 was just a bad decision when I made the release that
started using WAV64. I plan to add a flag to force .wav files and make the
extension for W64's .w64. 

There is no good solution unfortunatly, but at least this way the
timemachine users will pester application authors that dont support W64 :)

- Steve