I realize that it isn't much of an improvement, but AIFF supports 4GB
recordings, and flac is compatible with this. Being an avid "taper"
myself, I have, on many occasions recorded up to this limit, and I
always back up my original recordings using flac.
W64 support is more than welcome, but AIFF support gets you twice the
length right away.
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
On May 29, 2007, at 23:00, Justin Frankel wrote:
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...
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.
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