[Ardour-Users] dither 32bit to 16bit

plutek-infinity plutek at infinity.net
Thu Dec 10 08:34:25 PST 2009


>Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:22:54 -0500
>From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
>
>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.
>

ok... thanks, paul!

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.pltk.



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