[Ardour-Users] Importing huge wave fils

[DuWayne Holsbeck]

I did try a few different formats looks like a missed one Doh! I am
looking for the Sox syntax to concoctante the wave input files and
output them in CAF format.
CheersDuWayne
On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 18:50 -0600, Paul Davis wrote:
> 4G is the limit for a WAV file. 
> 
> If you want to go bigger, you need to use CAF (an apple format, but
> supported by libsndfile and thus ardour) or RF64 ....
> 
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:38 PM DuWayne Holsbeck <drh at niptron.com>
> wrote:
> > Good Day All
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am having an issue that is confusing the heck out of me.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have a 32ch Midas mixer with the DN32-Live card which does 32Ch
> > 
> > multitrac recording on 2 32G SD chips. Works great. I can also
> > record 
> > 
> > a stero board mix to USB drive.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The problem I am having is the multitrac recording is written to 8
> > 4G
> > 
> > wave files per SD chip. After stewing on it for a while I found
> > that 4G
> > 
> > is the file size limit on a VFat partition. Unfortunatley that is
> > the
> > 
> > file system KlarkTeknik decided to use. Silly MS people.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I would love to find a way of gluing the Waves together then import
> > the
> > 
> > whole thing as 1 big wave file. I have tried Sox which thinks it is
> > 
> > concactenate them together. The file is deffinetly 32G. But when I
> > open
> > 
> > it in Ardour or Audacity it only shows the first 11 minutes of the
> > 
> > recording. I tried just going wave to wave. The RIFF header on the
> > 
> > output wave file shows a length of 11min. That just happens to be
> > the
> > 
> > length of the wave files being imported. I also tried going from
> > Wave
> > 
> > to Raw to Wave thinking it might be a wave file limitation. I did
> > find
> > 
> > information that staed the 4G limit was because of the filesystem.
> > The
> > 
> > limit on NTFS is much larger.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Any thoughts? I know its not directly Ardour related but I am try
> > to
> > 
> > import the tracks into Ardour.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > DuWayne
> > 
> > 
> > 
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