48 kHz Questions

[morningdew]

A couple easy ones for you.

1.  FLAC won't compress a wav in 48kHz.  Any way to compress 48kHz wav's?  Currently doing all my recording in 16/48kHz and I'd like compress them before I archive them for my personal use.

2.  Any way to burn the music to a playable media in 16/48 so I can listen to a show in 16/48 and compare the same show I've recorded and re-sampled to 16/44.1?  Or is this comparison so slight I'm just wasting my time anyways?

Thanks.

[JasonSobel]

1.  FLAC won't compress a wav in 48kHz.  Any way to compress 48kHz wav's?  Currently doing all my recording in 16/48kHz and I'd like compress them before I archive them for my personal use.

FLAC does compress 48kHz files.  I've used FLAC frontend many, many times for both 16 bit, 48 kHz files, and 24/48 files.  what seems to be the problem with FLAC

2.  Any way to burn the music to a playable media in 16/48 so I can listen to a show in 16/48 and compare the same show I've recorded and re-sampled to 16/44.1?  Or is this comparison so slight I'm just wasting my time anyways?

you can burn 16/48 files to either DVD-Audio (with DVD-Audiofile or discwelder, for example), or to a DVD-Video disc (with "audio-dvd-creator")

I've burned many 16/48 shows to DVD, mostly to get the whole show onto one disc.  although it is also nice to have the original recording, unaltered in any way, available for playback without going back to the DAT.

[morningdew]

Gives me the error message that says.

Your file is in 48 kHz, must be in 44.1 kHz to compress (I'm paraphrasing but it's darn close).

Thanks for the answer on the second one.  I'll have to look when I get home but I'm assumming Nero will burn audio to a DVD?

If it does I'll just start burning everything to DVD.  The price of the blanks are just about the same and this way I can get a whole show on one DVD.

[JasonSobel]

Gives me the error message that says.

Your file is in 48 kHz, must be in 44.1 kHz to compress (I'm paraphrasing but it's darn close).

hmmm, never seen that one before... which program are you using to compress?  FLAC Frontend?  xACT?

Thanks for the answer on the second one.  I'll have to look when I get home but I'm assumming Nero will burn audio to a DVD?

If it does I'll just start burning everything to DVD.  The price of the blanks are just about the same and this way I can get a whole show on one DVD.

I don't think Nero will do audio.  the first question to ask is, can your player handle DVD-Audio discs.  If yes, you can download the free DVD-Audiofile program to create a DVD-A disc image (and then you can burn the image (.ISO file) with Nero.  If your player can't read DVD-Audio discs (and unless is explicitly says it does, you should assume that it cannot), then you want to burn a DVD-Video disc, with your 16/48 files as the audio.  "Audio-DVD-Creator" is your best bet, and that'll run you about $40.  this website is helpful for different burning options:
http://24bit.turtleside.com

[F.O.Bean]

uncheck your sector align box to compress 48k wavs, they wont compress unless 'align on sector boundaries' in UNCHECKED

[morningdew]

Ding, Ding.  We have a winner (I'm betting).  I'll try it tonight.

Thanks Bean.

[JasonSobel]

ahhh, very interesting.  +T Bean.
I didn't think of that, because I never use that option anyway, so it's always unchecked for me.

morningdew - Please let us know for sure if that was the cause of your problems.

[F.O.Bean]

if hes using frontend, i bet that what it is if hes aligning those sbe's in frontend

sctor boundaries are only in 16/44.1k files BTW