Topic: audacity problem joining 3 files

[panther65]

I've been using Audacity 1.2.4 without any problem for several months. I just recently taped a concert in 24/96 as I always do. I joined the second set which was 3 files long, and came up with a file 4.12 gigs long. I saved the wave file and all seemed well until  I tried to play the files with Winamp and it says it's a damaged file. I drag the file to cdwave and only the first few minutes are imported. The master waves seem fine-they play in winamp and are the correct bitrate. Any answers? Too big a file for Audacity to handle?

[pigiron]

Too big a file for Audacity to handle?

probably exceeding the wave spec... http://ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/

The maximum amount of sound data (SubChunk2 Size) allowed is 4,294,967,295 bytes (0xFFFF FFFF)... add 44 bytes for the header and the maximum file size is 4,294,967,339 bytes.

Also, the shntool utility will display that wav file header info in human readable form.

[pool]

Wav Joiner Ver 2.0 is great in joning any wav file sizes together. Seamless join.