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Topic: How many WAV.s ? |
Wayne Cox
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Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Aug 2008 6:28 pm |
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I use a variety of recording software peograms for various reasons. One of my biggest pet peaves is the lack of compatability and lack of inter-changeability when transferring WAV. files from one program to another. Here is a good example: I recorded some original material using Cubase Essentials 4, then did some mixing & balancing. Next I mixed about 8 tracks down to the two standard stereo tracks used on most records and CDs. Cubase converted them to WAV. files as I expected. I thought I could then use most any common CD burning program such as Music Match Jukebox, or RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player to make an audio CD of one song. But nooew! The only other program I could find which recognized that WAV. file format was Adobe Audition. I managed to finally make the conversion and burned a CD, but it raises an important question..."How many different types of WAV. file formats are there, and why the variations from the standard in the first place???"
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Al Marcus
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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 24 Aug 2008 7:51 pm
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Wayne, I wonder why too. All these recording p;rogram have their PET Extensions(propietary, of course). al...al.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 2:22 am
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You have to be careful of the number of bits that the audio wav file is in. The CD Audio "standard" is 16 bits, and what most programs use. However, some recording programs will use 24 bits (which is better resolution) as the default, unless you change it, and 24 bit is not compatible with "everything".
I ran into that with my Sonar 7, I had some songs mixed down to the PC and I ran them through Sonar 7 to do some limited "mastering" and when I saved the files I found out nothing else would play them. I got into Sonar 7 and found out 24 bit was it's "export" default. I changed it to 16 bits and no more compatibility problems.
However, the CD burning features in many Media Players leave a lot to be desired. It's best to burn audio CD's using your regular CD burning program (e.g Roxio, Nero,etc)as they have more options on burning. e.g. you don't want to burn at the maximum burn speed of the CD/DVD burner and some Media programs do not have an option for that. My Audio CD burn speed "standard" is 8X so the audio CD's will play on almost any audio CD player. I make and sell my own Instrumental CD's at shows and there is a possibility it will be played on an old cheap CD player or a nice new one. The old players will have problems with audio CD's that are burned at much higher than 8X as they will tend to skip or not play at all. |
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Al Marcus
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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 7:58 am
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Jack-How is it going in Florida, lots of rain there.Thanks for the good info, that is a good thing to know. Best to burn at slower speeds to be able to play it on most machines, good idea....al.
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David Doggett
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Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 9:19 am
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| This thread explains a lot. Thanks. |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 12:22 pm
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Al we are doing OK in my area (about 65 miles north of Tampa). We got, total, about 7 inches of rain out of Tropical Storm Fay and most of that within an 18 hour period Thursday evening/Friday morning.
The East coast of Florida, around Cape Canaveral/Cocoa Beach/Melborne got the brunt of the rain with Cocoa Beach getting 30 inches.
We have been in a severe drought and the rain was very welcome, although the places that got 20 or 30 inches will not agree. I'm one block from a lake and it's been down so long that "waterfront" is about 40 feet from where it should be. It's going to take the rain (not the wind) from a couple of Tropical Storms/Hurricanes to fill it back up. |
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Don Sulesky
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Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 2:11 pm
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I'm 12 miles west of Jack and we got another good soaking here about 1:00 today.
I used to use Roxio for all my CDs but the latest version I bought did not seem to function well so now I use my Nero program for all my CDs.
I've tested samples out in an old Sony CD player I bought in 1994 and never had a failure yet.
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Wayne Cox
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Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 8:00 pm
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Thanks for the tips! JACK's comments confirm what I suspected, but had not really put to the test. Just for the record,I do know that "WAV" is a file extension and should be preceeded by a dot,not followed by one. For some odd reason it just looked better that way. Also,I too, have family in Florida. You folks needed rain but maybe not all of it at once.
Thanks again for the help!
~~W.C.~~
Last edited by Wayne Cox on 25 Aug 2008 8:10 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 25 Aug 2008 8:09 pm
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Jack- I have a good friend in Cocoa .Fl. Hope his house didnn't get swanped. Also a Granddaughter in Palm Bay near Melbourne, hope no damage to her house, she had to redo her house from a previous Hurricane. Sad....al
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Gary Shepherd
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Fox, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2008 2:08 pm
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Just make sure that when you mixdown to a file for CD that you mix it to a stereo, 16bit 44.1k file - which is the standard for audio CDs. Anything else simply will not work for audio CDs.
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