[linux-audio-user] sample file conversion, logic -> ardour

[carmen]

On Thu Oct 12, 2006 at 10:40:49PM +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I recently played a gig with my quartet, and we arranged with a mac-dude
> that recorded the thing into his laptop/mac/logic. Today I received the
> DVD with the files, and I have trouble loading them into ardour.
> 
> they are 44.1K mono files in aif-format, and when simply converting them
> with "sox file.aif -r 48000 file.wav" and importing them into an 48000
> ardour session I get all noise. I guess they're either 32bit or it's the
> little endian issue (that I don't understand) or both.
> 
> Here's what "file" has to say:
> 
> atte at ajstrup:~/music/seq/jazz$ file audio_recording_041.aif
> audio_recording_041.aif: IFF data, AIFF audio
> 
> And on the same file converted as mentioned above with sox:
> 
> atte at ajstrup:~/music/seq/jazz$ file audio_recording_041.wav
> audio_recording_041.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio,
> Microsoft PCM, 32 bit, mono 48000 Hz

AFSP is great for identifying and converting just about any audio file out there. i dont know why it doesnt get more attention, maybe it has a weird license or something

ftp://ftp.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/TSP/AFsp/AFsp-v8r2.tar.gz