[Ardour-Users] Importing huge wave fils

[DuWayne Holsbeck]

Thanx looks exactly what I was looking for.

Cheers
DuWayne


On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 19:54 -0500, Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Sat, April 18, 2020 7:37 pm, DuWayne Holsbeck wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 4GB is also the size limit for the original wav file format. There is
> a
> newer 64 bit wave file format which can handle large files.
> 
> If you are using SoX to concatenate, try using .w64 for the output
> file
> extension, that should trigger SoX to use 64 bit wav format.
> 
> sndfile-concat may also do what you want, you could give that a try.
>