Re: [linux-audio-user] sample file conversion, logic -> ardour

Atte André Jensen wrote:

> Hi
>
> I recently played a gig with my quartet, and we arranged with a mac-dude
> that recorded the thing into his laptop/mac/logic. Today I received the
> DVD with the files, and I have trouble loading them into ardour.
>
> they are 44.1K mono files in aif-format, and when simply converting them
> with "sox file.aif -r 48000 file.wav" and importing them into an 48000
> ardour session I get all noise. I guess they're either 32bit or it's the
> little endian issue (that I don't understand) or both.

Try sndfile-resample which is part of libsamplerate. You might
need to convert the file format separately using sndfile-convert
which is part of libsndfile.

> Here's what "file" has to say:
>
> atte@email-addr-hidden:~/music/seq/jazz$ file audio_recording_041.aif
> audio_recording_041.aif: IFF data, AIFF audio

The "file" program is useless. Try using sndfile-info instead.

Erik

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