17 Feb
2005
17 Feb
'05
10:29 a.m.
Big problem there. Valid WAV files cannot be larger
than 4 gig. Many
programs won't open a WAV file larger than 2 Gig. 2 Gig is 90 minutes
of stereo float data at 48kHz.
W64 allows files very much larger (2^63 bytes).
Yes, I know. But since it's not openable in any of the programs I
want to use it in, and the recordings are much less than 90 minutes,
I'd like to just use WAV for now.
Would it help if sndfile-play had a Jack back end?
If sndfile-play could output to JACK, that would be nice, but I
probably wouldn't use it unless I had to. In other words, if
alsaplayer or something like that could handle W64 files instead, that
would be better.
Seems to work here with small files. Can you be more
specific?
Didn't work for me. Maybe my original was somehow corrupted? I
showed the specific error below.
as rezound
says "warning -- libaudiofile reports that
/home/omegatron/tm-2005-02-16T21:47:44.wav contains 96670161848201472
sample frames yet the file is most likely not large enough to contain
that many samples.
Loading what can be loaded."
Does libaudiofile even support the W64 file format? Any editor which uses libsndfile should read that file
quite happily.
I use Sweep (http://sweep.sf.net) but Audacity should also work.
Ok.
No, but I'l consider that a feature request.
:-) I was angry; sorry. It would be great if there was a hidden file
that you could set defaults in for all the command-line switches, file
name format (time and date) and whatever.
You could lobby the rezound developers to add W64
support, its much better
if you're working with long, or multichannel files.
I'm going to do that.
You might also change the file extension you use for
W64 files.
Its far less confusing if you used ".w64" for these files
instead if ".wav".
This is the way it currently works for me.
The easiest way for this to happen is to replace the
libaudiofile
support in rezound with libsndfile support. It may even be possible
to support both.
I'm going to ask them.