Topic: Question RE: Spark XL's Batch Converter

[John Kelly]

If I choose files with the exact same bit depth and sample rate, will the program simply save the files as another format?  Or will it resample the files?

Basically I have a show that was recorded in WAV64, which wont be read by FLAC.  I want to switch it to AIFF and thought this would be the fastest way...

[MattD]

I'm pretty sure it will just format convert. Try it and see how long it takes vs a known resample procedure.

Else, there's always SAVE AS, but one at a time kinda sucks.

[John Kelly]

Yeah it was much quicker than a resample, so I am assuming it just converted the formats...  Thanks

[ice8888]

i use that batch converter all the time.  it's a godsend.  just make your bit depth and sample rate set to "source" and then change the file format to whatever you want.  it's a beautiful thing because i'll go on and track out a 24/48 show in w64 format, and export the regions.  then batch convert everything over to .wav format so i've got 24/48 wav's, and then resample and dither those to get the 16/44.1 wav's to create shn's.  love it.

ice

[Fryhoffer]

Is there a way to run every file in a project through several plugins?  More like a batch processor than a batch converter, I guess.  I recently remastered a show that had already been tracked and it sucked to bounce each track individually.

[John Kelly]

The converter will run it through a single plugin, but no more.

[scb]

write a cue sheet, then join the files back up using shntool.  then run all the processes you want on them in spark.  then split them back up with shntool using the original times

[Fryhoffer]

write a cue sheet, then join the files back up using shntool.  then run all the processes you want on them in spark.  then split them back up with shntool using the original times

scott... thanks for the tip!  i'll try that out next time i run into this.