Our DAW REAPER (www.reaper.fm) supports W64 as well. We'd be happy to
share our W64 reading/writing implementations if someone wishes to
integrate them into flac...
-Justin
Chris Cantwell wrote:
I use Sony (previously Sonic Foundry) Sound Forge, which allows me to
save audio files in .w64 (Wave 64) format to get around the 2GB .wav
file limitation. W64 was invented by Sonic Foundry, and is an open
format as far as I know. The only programs I know about using the
.w64 format at the moment are Sound Forge and Steinberg Nuendo,
although there may be others out there. With increasing number of
tapers recording concerts in 24bit, which takes up 50% more disk space
than 16bit files at the same sample rate (about 1GB per hour), it is
easy to blow past 2GB for a single file, which is roughly 2 hrs of
audio. Some audio editors will stop after the 2GB limit is reached,
or start recording a new file, but Sound Forge will keep on trucking
when recording in .w64 format. I can see this format becoming more
popular in the future. I can then edit the raw .w64 file in Sound
Forge and convert it to 16bit-44Khz for tracking/burning to a CD. The
problem comes when I try to archive the raw audio .w64 files to DVD -
sometimes I need to compress them to make it fit. Right now I have to
break a .w64 file up into 2 .wav files with Sound Forge, then compress
each .wav file individually with flac. Or burn extra DVDs.
So I would like to request adding .w64 support to flac. It would make
archiving these files easier.
Thanks,
Chris
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