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Help, my bit-depth is too high!

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Hey kids, I've got a bunch of 24-bit WAV files. However, my soundcard does not support 24-bit audio so I need to convert them to 16-bit WAV files. What is the easiest way to do this? My audio conversion program does not have 24-bit WAV as an option, so it doesn't even know how to read them.
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Post by ken »

Hey,

You need to dither!

Not knowing your set-up, I'm not sure what to tell you. Do you have an audio/wav editing program that may have dithering capabilities? I've found that with some you can do a "save as" and just choose 16 bit vs. 24. Good luck.

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Post by roymond »

Yeah, what Ken said! Also, maybe your CD burning software will recognize the files, because creating an audio CD will give you a 16bit file, then rip it from the CD. If you time it I'd like to know if a search on download.com for free utilities would be faster :)
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http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... totune.htm
Analogx has a freeware program that will deal with this. Just make sure you leave the box that says note blank or it will change the pitch of your sample. It also works best with short samples and not whole songs.
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My problem is that I don't have a program that will even open them, excepting WinAmp. However, WinAmp doesn't burn CDs. Nero claims that they are the wrong format, so I can't burn a CD with that. I'll look on download.com, I guess.
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Post by Rabid Garfunkel »

Maybe a little of the old "too little, too late" here, but the Quicktime player app from Apple can do it, if you've got a registered version (or the always easy to find reg codes).

Or hell, post 'em and ask someone to do it for you, hey? Someone's gotta have the bandwidth.
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Post by Future Boy »

Well, I managed a work around for my problem. Turns out I could trick Sonar into importing the files if I told it I had a 24-bit audio card. It would complain that the card didn't support 24-bit audio every time I imported or exported audio, but that's all. So I was able to switch the bit-depth and trim the silence out of each file this way. It sure took a lot longer than a batch processor though.
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