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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: Lil Kim Jong-Il on August 27, 2006, 12:53:09 PM
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When tracking archived masters I open the master file that has been flac encoded. when I save the tracks, I select convert to WAV and set the 24b-96k settings. The wave files are written but they include the fmt sub-chunk that flac does not like. every other editor is OK with the wave files.
Is there any way to specify the alternate wave format when performing a conversion at save time?
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My guess is that it is either a pad chunk or seektable causing the problem
On the flac portion, you might try re-encoding with the following options and then and decoding to see if it makes any difference.
--no-padding --no-seektable
Gordon
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When tracking archived masters I open the master file that has been flac encoded. when I save the tracks, I select convert to WAV and set the 24b-96k settings. The wave files are written but they include the fmt sub-chunk that flac does not like. every other editor is OK with the wave files.
Is there any way to specify the alternate wave format when performing a conversion at save time?
See this thread. http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=66641.0
It mentions saving to an alternate format from CDWAV.
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See this thread. http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=66641.0
It mentions saving to an alternate format from CDWAV.
Yup, that's the trick.
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Thanks for the responses. I actually figured out what to do. That alternate wave format is the trick, but i was using the save function in a way that the option was not made available.
I was tracking a flac encoded master. When I saved the tracks to disc, I expected a save without conversion would write out flacs. I wanted wav files so I selected "convert to wave". When the save dialog is in that mode, it does not offer the option of saving in the alternate format. So I got wav files that command line flac didn't like.
What I figured out is that if you are tracking a flac encoded master and you select save tracks with no format conversion, it actually does convert the format and save the tracks as wav files rather than as flac files. I think that dialog should include the "alternate wav format" switch when the format conversion is set to store as WAV and I think it should save the tracks as flac encoded files if the master is flac encoded.
In anycase, I know what I need to do to get the desired output.