Topic: CDwave 24-bit convert on save

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

When tracking archived masters I open the master file that has been flac encoded.  when I save the tracks, I select convert to WAV and set the 24b-96k settings.  The wave files are written but they include the fmt sub-chunk that flac does not like.  every other editor is OK with the wave files.

Is there any way to specify the alternate wave format when performing a conversion at save time?

[live2496]

My guess is that it is either a pad chunk or seektable causing the problem

On the flac portion, you might try re-encoding with the following options and then and decoding to see if it makes any difference.

--no-padding --no-seektable

Gordon

[live2496]

When tracking archived masters I open the master file that has been flac encoded.  when I save the tracks, I select convert to WAV and set the 24b-96k settings.  The wave files are written but they include the fmt sub-chunk that flac does not like.  every other editor is OK with the wave files.

Is there any way to specify the alternate wave format when performing a conversion at save time?

See this thread. http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=66641.0

It mentions saving to an alternate format from CDWAV.

[SparkE!]

See this thread. http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=66641.0

It mentions saving to an alternate format from CDWAV.

Yup, that's the trick.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

Thanks for the responses.  I actually figured out what to do.  That alternate wave format is the trick, but i was using the save function in a way that the option was not made available.

I was tracking a flac encoded master.  When I saved the tracks to disc, I expected a save without conversion would write out flacs.  I wanted wav files so I selected "convert to wave".  When the save dialog is in that mode, it does not offer the option of saving in the alternate format.  So I got wav files that command line flac didn't like.

What I figured out is that if you are tracking a flac encoded master and you select save tracks with no format conversion, it actually does convert the format and save the tracks as wav files rather than as flac files.  I think that dialog should include the "alternate wav format" switch when the format conversion is set to store as WAV and I think it should save the tracks as flac encoded files if the master is flac encoded. 

In anycase, I know what I need to do to get the desired output.