Re: [linux-audio-user] how to change the bitrate of a wav file?

From: David <dplist@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 00:18:05 EEST

On Sun, 22 May 2005 15:44:28 -0400
Kenneth Dombrowski <kdombrowski@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a wav file which cdrecord is rejecting, I believe because it is
> 24 bit rather than 16; here is the output from 'file':
>
> taylor_oxley_dixon.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio,
> Microsoft PCM, 24 bit, stereo 44100 Hz
>
> Would someone be kind enough to tell me the command to convert this
> file to 16 bit, please? The sox manpage has only confused me.
>
> I did try:
>
> $ sox taylor_oxley_dixon.wav taylor_oxley_dixon.cdr
> sox: Failed reading taylor, oxley and dixon.wav: Sorry, don't
> understand .wav size

You could give a try to sndfile-convert, an example program that comes
with the excellent libsndfile library.

> Thanks in advance,
> Kenneth

Hope this helps.

--
David
Received on Mon May 23 04:15:05 2005

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