[Ardour-Users] dither 32bit to 16bit

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:17 AM, plutek-infinity <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
> greetings!
>
> i have a bunch of 24bit and 32bit wav files which i want to convert to 16bit, in the manner used by ardour's export function (with the 16bit and triangular dither settings). does ardour use external tools for this? i.e. is there a command-line equivalent which could batch-process the files, or is it actually necessary to import them into ardour and use the export function?

ardour uses slightly adapted code from steve harris' gdither library
to do dithering.  you could create a command line utility for this
fairly easily if you were a programmer. i don't know of any existing
one.