Topic: Highest quality way of transfering AIF files to WAV files?

[Swampy]

So my band tracked at the studio that I worked at and we are gonna overdub/mix at my house, but in my rush the night of the sessions, I recorded in AIF, not wav. To work with the files at home they have to be WAV. What would be the highest quality way I could transfer these for free. This is you know a studio thing so I want it to be the highest quality transfer as possible. Thanks!

[Brian]

bounce the tracks as .wav in pro tools if you really feel like it.

or you could just do a file > save as for each  individual track in another program like sound forge.

aiff and wav are essentially the same.  aiff files contain information within itself that a mac recognizes and that's pretty much it.

there's a little more to it than that, but i'm forgetting the exact specifics of the title of that info. 

[bluegrass_brad]

WAV files are almost the same as AIFF. They both store data in chunks.  a google search revelas that the WAV format takes into account some peculiarities of the Intel CPU such as little endian byte order. You should be right on the money doing what Brian suggested,  Opening the AIFF and resaving as a WAV.

[Swampy]

Ya, I know they are almost exactly the same. But I can't get Sonar to read the AIFs for the life of me! Im really looking for a program that I can do batch conversions. We talkin 40 takes at 12 tracks a take. Would really take forever doing them one at a time! Thanks for your help so far!

[sleepypedro]

soundforge does batch conversions.

if you need help with this, drop me a line.