Topic: 4gb file limit in Audacity

[panther65]

I've just recorded a show in 24/96 that went close to three hours long, without any set breaks. So I have 2 files that are at 2gb and one file that's only about a gig. I can join the files without a problem in Audacity, but Audacity exports only a 3.99 gb file. I can't think of a way to seamlessly track this show this way. Is there a setting in Audacity that will enable me to export more than a 4gb file, or is there another program that would export say a 5 or 6 gb file?

[nasarius]

I suspect you're trying to save to a FAT32 drive, which can't handle files over 4GB.

Audacity itself shouldn't have a limit on file size. I'm testing it now to be sure.

[panther65]

Well, combined my three files are a little over 5 gigs. I can join them without a problem, but when I export it as a .wav for tracking in cdwav, it only exports a 3.99 gig file. I don't want to do anything special, just track it in cdwav and create a .iso file in Lplex and then burn to DVD.

[panther65]

Does anyone know if Audacity has an export size limit? I can't seem to export more than 3.99gb. I have one long show that is 5 gigs, and can't seem to be able to figure out how to either get the whole show without any cuts or how to seamlessly get the files to save out of cdwav.

[dorrcoq]

What I did was find an approximate mid-point that would be a natural track split.  I split the large file there  with Audacity, then saved the two "halves" and opened them individually with CD Wave.

[-sam]

Why exactly do you need one contiguous file to track the show?