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Title: Opening a .Wav over 2GB
Post by: BobW on January 13, 2005, 10:06:13 PM

I've seen a few posts about this issue, but most cover files which were recorded in Wavelab or whatever.

Has anyone had any success opening a .WAV file of greater than 2GB ?

I found Cool Edit Pro 2.0 to be able to do this and I think I got Wavelab 5 to do it as an import, but am not sure it will save after splitting.   CD Wave and Audacity had trouble as well.  I want to open it, split it to under 2 GB and use it as I like.
Some of the mentioned programs will spit and save it, but the .wav cannot be opened by every program, even after the split.
Flakey behaviors !

So far, CEP is the only thing that I've found to work.

Any tips or ideas ?

Title: Re: Opening a .Wav over 2GB
Post by: C.Clark on January 14, 2005, 12:12:42 AM

have you tried cdwave or soundforge?  i just had this difficulty, trying to merge two waves together that were
over 2gb when merged, i resampled them to 44.1 from 48 and they both were just under to put together, i guess if its 16bit, as mine was 24, its a moot point and im not sure of an answer, but 24 bit can always be resampled and dithered to a threshold below 2gb in most instances. 

Title: Re: Opening a .Wav over 2GB
Post by: BobW on January 14, 2005, 04:55:43 PM

Quote from: C.Clark on January 14, 2005, 12:12:42 AM

have you tried cdwave or soundforge?  i just had this difficulty, trying to merge two waves together that were
over 2gb when merged, i resampled them to 44.1 from 48 and they both were just under to put together, i guess if its 16bit, as mine was 24, its a moot point and im not sure of an answer, but 24 bit can always be resampled and dithered to a threshold below 2gb in most instances. 

Original file is 24/96 of 3.36GB created by an FR-2  So far only Adobo Audition (CEP) will handle it.
Resampling and splitting is what I want to do. 

Wierd thing was some programs would open it, split it and save it, but then other programs couldn't open the new, small files.
Strange stuff.  I'm guessing that it has to do with file headers....

Title: Re: Opening a .Wav over 2GB
Post by: tim in jersey on January 14, 2005, 09:46:34 PM

http://www.solorb.com/dat-heads/digests/V7.200/D261#Msg7

http://www.gidluckmastering.com/audiohck.zip

Title: Re: Opening a .Wav over 2GB
Post by: BobW on January 16, 2005, 08:45:06 PM

Nice to have a digital surgeon on the board, no ?   :D
Audiohck works great.

 I did migrate to Audition, also.
There's some easy-cool stuff in it. I wish it had the UV-22HR dither.....