[Ardour-Users] Importing huge wave fils

[Robin Gareus]

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