Ok so i have my primus show all cleaned up from the clipping. I edited it all in soundforge. I split the tracks in cdwave and went to convert it using flac at 24/48 and i get unsupported file compression. What gives? Also if i downsample this to 44.1 i have to make it 16bit right? Other than that if someone can help me out on the converting to flac or shn i think i might have this long process figured out. To make things easier next time i think i'm just going to run 16/44.1
yes, if downsampling, you have to dither to 16 bit... 8)so you would end up w/ a 16/44.1k file...
You can have a 24 bit/44.1 KHz recording...
now, if the end result is CD quality, then you should resample and then dither, but if I understand the original question all he was asking was if I want to resample to 44.1 do I have to be in the 16 bit realm and the answer is no... in fact, as I mention you should resample in 24 bit and then dither.
As for your Flac problem, I've noticed that, too... CDWave is spitting out the "new" WAV format which I'm guessing Flac cannot handle. I recall reading about this on the CDWave FAQ... there are two slightly different flavors of WAV files now (the diffs have to do with the header) and the new version of CDWave went with the new style (microsoft's implementation). WinAmp should still be able to play your WAVs, however Flac won't be able to compress them... you should however, be able to compress your original pre-CDWave-split 24 bit file without incident.
Hope this helps
Rusty