[Ardour-Users] dither 32bit to 16bit

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Emmanuel Saracco <esaracco at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> plutek-infinity a écrit :
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> thanks... cheers!
>
> Perhaps this page will help:
>
>        http://www.mainly.me.uk/resampling/index.html

just FYI, that page is seriously out of date, and not relevant to the
task at hand, since Plutek wants only to convert down to 16 bit
(sample width reduction) not resample.