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Hi Alec, I just got this off of the "Hydrogenaudio Forum Discussion" : http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t32422.html Quote: > cliveb > Mar 17 2005, 03:35 AM > QUOTE(ChiGung @ Mar 17 2005, 03:40 AM) > The common wav header can only allocate 4 bytes to state the total wav > length in bytes which will be why there's a two Gig limit. > > <http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/index.php?act=findpost&pid=282850> > > > This isn't quite correct. It is true that the file length in the WAV > header is a 4 byte integer, but it's an *unsigned* number, which means > that the maximum size of a WAV file is actually 4GB, not 2GB. > > Some audio programs get this wrong, and interpret the file length as a > signed number, thus imposing a 2GB limit. I can confirm that Wave > Repair supports WAV files up to 4GB, and if used just for recording > it's free. And I see someone else has pointed out that Audacity (also > free) will also go above 2GB. Hope this helps. Rod Stephens Family Theater Productions Alec McLane wrote: > We are recording (mostly) analog tapes to disk at a sampling rate of > 88.2KHz and 24-bit resolution, using Peak 4.0 on a G5 running OS 10.3.5. > While the files are for archival purposes, to make listening copies of > these recordings we bump them down to 44.1KHz to burn to CD. For the > archival files, however, we are encountering the 2GB limit for 32-bit > audio > file formats, which at that resolution only allows around 65-70 min. of > music. I'm told this is a limit built into the standards for most audio > files - WAV, AIFF, Sound Designer, etc., established by Microsoft, Apple, > and Digidesign, respectively. > > While this is enough to record, say, one side of a cassette tape, it may > not be enough for a 10" reel at 3 3/4 ips, nor is it enough for those few > occasions when we record from 95- or 125-min DATs. The virtue of Peak 4.0 > is that it allows burning a "playlist" to CD from regions defined > within a > single file, and doesn't require the saving of smaller files in order to > make a CD from the recording. But it has the disadvantage of just > stopping > the recording at the 2GB limit, without at least opening up a new file to > continue, so many recordings get truncated and we have to figure out > where > it stopped and begin a new file manually. > > In addition to the recording problem, the idea of storing a complete > tape, > or at least a side of a tape, as a single file in archival-quality format > on a server is appealing, just for its simplicity. So even recording > separate files and then merging them within Peak just to burn a CD is > still > not an ideal solution, although for the time being it seems the only one. > > Has anyone else found solutions to this problem with other software? > > Alec McLane > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Alec McLane > Scores & Recordings/ > World Music Archives Phone: (860) 685-3899 > Olin Library Fax: (860) 685-2661 > Wesleyan University mailto:[log in to unmask] > Middletown, CT 06459 http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/srhome/srdir.htm >