[ardour-users] file lengths

[Peter Lutek]

Paul Davis wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 08:22 -0500, Peter Lutek wrote:
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>>Marijus Bernotas Marukas wrote:
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>>>This is serious. I was trying to record a long track from DAT source and
>>>ardour hanged when I clicked stop :/ As a result no wav file was created -
>>>1,5 hours of work were lost.
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>>>Is it possible to record using raw audio instead of WAV?
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>>>Marijus 
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>>i don't believe there's any way around this currently in ardour, because 
>>it uses only wav or bwf. if this is incorrect, i'm sure paul will jump 
>>in to correct me!
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>>currently, for long recording times, i'm using ecasound and recording to 
>>w64 files. if i want to import those to ardour for an edit/mix, i have 
>>to split them into shorter chunks.
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>>i would agree with you that it's a serious issue, especially with higher 
>>bit depths and sample rates becoming more common and possible.
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>as part of the work on ardour2, i am planning to switch to generating
>w64 files with an iXML (www.ixml.info) chunk as the default native file
>format. as in "this weekend".
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>--p
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ahhh.... now that is good news! thanks, paul!

will this show up in the current cvs, or only in the ardour2 codebase?

-p