[LAU] Creating a very long audio file?

Monty Montgomery xiphmont at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 18:35:33 UTC 2013


Regular WAV at ~CD rate is limited to about 5 hours because the length
encoding fields are 32 bit.  You need to generate an extended WAV with
the WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE struct that allows a 16 exabyte data chunk.
I'm a little surprised sox doesn't do that by default.

Monty


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