[Ardour-Users] Importing huge wave fils

[DuWayne Holsbeck]

Thanx for all the great info "sox *.WAV output.w64" works like a charm.
Now I feel silly I spent way to many hours looking for that answer. I
should have started hear.

Cheers
DuWatne


On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 02:55 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> On 4/19/20 2:37 AM, DuWayne Holsbeck 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.
> 
> It's not only VFAT. The WAV file format is also limited to 4GB, since
> address in the file header are 32bit.
> 
> > I would love to find a way of gluing the Waves together then import
> > the whole thing as 1 big wave file.
> 
> You could use .w64 or RF64 files or some other file format that does
> not
> have the limitation of WAV.
> 
> > I know its not directly Ardour related but I am try to
> > import the tracks into Ardour.
> 
> In Ardour's import dialog, there is the option Mapping: "sequence
> files"
> 
> 
> ciao,
> robin
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