:-) grin. I started on Macs in the 90s and find them excellent, except for the prices. Working with Windows is a big mystery to me - exactly as the opposite is for you. I don’t proscelytize for Apple at all, in fact I detest how they keep changing their systems in such unproferssional ways. I hope to keep my old hardware running for the rest of my life as I can’t afford the newer hardware and don’t like their cartoony appearance. I’m just a different Old Dawg!
Back in the day, 30 years or more, Apple used AIFF natively but they now work with WAV perfectly well. The only times I see AIFF is when pulling audio off CDs, but it is easy to rip them as WAVs.
Correspondingly, the club where I work has a Soundcraft board which requires Windows (even for designing presets) and I feel the same way you do about dealing with it!
My Mac-centric way of working has cost me some archiving jobs, but I get along fine as a freelancer so it’s not a real problem. My tape decks and files don’t care what we use! :-)
Be well,
<L>
Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
> On Dec 9, 2020, at 11:21 AM, Martin Fisher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hey Lou and thanks for your input.
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> I thought that Macs could handle WAV's although a lot of Mac folks that I've worked with seem to prefer AIFF files. (I will admit that I really haven't done a lot of research into the whys and wherefores of Apple formats. The main reason I use the PC platform is that it's what I'm familiar with and I like the software that is available and most of my hardware and software is currently geared toward it. Additionally, I've had to interface with a Mac from time to time and didn't like it. The television station I worked for bought an audio console with a Mac interface and I always HATED having to get into it. Not that I'm knocking Apple one bit....just call me an "ole dawg." The non-2G cap is certainly a plus though....along with the apparently better stability of the platform/OS. Certainly no arguments there.)
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> Best! :-)
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> Martin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Lou Judson
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ARSCLIST] file format - Digitizing Audio Interface recommendations
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> Two comments, Martin, from a professional who only uses Macs:
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> WAV is absolutely the standard for audio preservation and production, on Macs and on other computers.
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> I just wanted to counter the implication that using Apple computers might require some other file format. WAV is the standard everywhere. Macs can use larger than 2G files, though. I have some 3 gig, 98 minute transfers that I like to keep whole!
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> I believe that 96/24 is also the preservation standard, as you said. I’m working on an archving project for GRAMMY and they specified 96/24.
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> I can understand you wanting 192 capability, though I’ve never used it.
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> 2c,
> <L>
> Lou Judson
> Intuitive Audio
> 415-883-2689
>
>> On Dec 9, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Martin Fisher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> There are other useable file types but WAV is pretty much the PC standard. (I ain't made the move to Apple yet and don't intend to soon.)
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