[studiorecorder] Re: large files
- From: "Harry Brown" <wd8oep2464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:31:21 -0500
Hi Larry,
Even though this is off topic, the question I'm going to ask, but here goes.
I'm thinking of getting the bookport desktop, and I'm wondering if it will work
with my 64 gig thumb drive?
I know some recorders only will work with up to 32 gig.
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Skutchan
To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:59 AM
Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: large files
Hi Harry.
The file specification for .wav limits its size to 2 GB. At the time, that
was a reasonable file size, because operating systems couldn't support much
more than that for their entire volume.
APH developers have been investigating adding support for one of the newer
file formats, like wav64, but this is a pretty big job, and no actual
programming has begun on it.
At the same time, the 2 GB limit has not been too nasty of a burden as others
on the list have pointed out.
Even if you decide to use another program, there are several techniques, as
others have also mentioned, that let you get lots more audio in a file. For
now, too, it is a lot easier to find a file when you break the down into some
logical category like a tape, or a series of tapes. Some day, audio searches
will be possible where you can find a phrase in all that audio data, but you
are still wasting lots of resource if you record mono programming in stereo,
etc.
On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Harry Brown <wd8oep2464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Mary,
Thanks for the help, I sure appreciate it!
For anyone from APH, is there a reason why studio recorder can't work with
bigger files than 2 gig?
What you're going to have is, people having to split recordings up into who
knows how many files, if the file you're recording is bigger than 2 gig, my
goodness!
Whose idea was this to limit a recording to such a file size?
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Emerson
To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 7:59 AM
Subject: [studiorecorder] large files
Use one .wav file per tape. This will keep you mindful that Studio
Recorder has a size limit on files it can work with. Keep the .wav file
size under 2 gig. This translates to the length of each file of about
two hours. It can't work with anything bigger than two gig. Also
remember that Studio Recorder works with .wav files directly. You can
store output in MP3 format, but to work directly with a file as you
edit, it must be a .wav file.
Mary
Mary
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