Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: merging mono files

The format needed by GrandOrgue (GO) is wav, 24 bit, 48kHz, PCM. When I 
use audio editors, this is what the files seem to show so I don't even 
know why they need converting in the first place even with the knowledge 
that the current wav format is "extensible" :-/ and not acceptable/ 
recognized by GO.

Mark

On 15/12/2016 18:42, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users wrote:
> On 2016-12-15 16:46, Dr. Mark Bugeja MD wrote:
>> It seems like what I did didn't work although I'm still waiting for a
>> reply from my friend.
>>
>> I am looking for converters hoping to strike gold but instead I seem
>> to find myself sinking deeper and deeper in thick mud.
>>
>> For instance.... there is this online converter. Ok. Select
>> bit-resolution, done; sampling rate, done; audio channels, done.
>> Then... show advanced options, PCM format: and a horrible list with
>> such things as little-endian and big-endian crops up. What the.......!
>> What are these? A new race? Aliens from outer space?
> When a 24-bit sample value is stored in a file, its three bytes can be
> in one order or the reverse; little-endian / big-endian are names for
> one or the other option.
>
> The thing that's so far stopped me from suggesting revisions of the sox
> command that creates merged files is that I don't know whether it has to
> include parameters telling sox what internal format the input file has,
> as well as which internal format you want the result to be.  I'd have
> hoped sox can id he input format... but if soxi can't discriminate
> between the two formats of data then maybe sox also cannot.
>
> There's also, maybe, a problem if it turns out that only some of your
> release files are in this funny format.  The script that does merging
> may have to become quite a lot more complicated - it's easy to have it
> issue one command for 'main' files and another for 'release' files, but
> complicated if it has to somehow test which format files are in.
>
>
>
>
>> http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-wav
> If you were going to use an online converter you'd need some sort of
> script, I expect, to feed thousands of files into it and retrieve the
> result - it'd be awful doing that manually.  I'm not keen on trying to
> write a script for that if I don't have to.
>



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