Wave 64 (.w64) file - help!!!

getting hold of the guy who recorded it

Not to step on anyones toes here, but it takes quite some stupidity to actually go forward and record something unique like a concert in a way that no one else can read it. If this was an actual job, then he would be out of it right then and there.

Also, the producer (the guy who hired him/told him to record the event) should have been suspicious about that nerd bringing this obscure gear to the gig, so at least part of the blame is possibly on you.

Christian

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bezdevil wrote:
Hey guys, Iv just received the unmixed audio for a live gig my band did that was recorded through the desk (on a linux system), and its in a .w64 file format. Iv read up about it and its basicly a large wav file in laymans terms, but i cant find a single program, plug in e.t.c that recognises the file and lets me open it as the 10 unmixed channel tracks as apparently its meant to do.

Here's some info on the file type and a possible solution.

"The WAV format is limited to files that are less than 4 GiB in size, because of its use of a 32-bit unsigned integer to record the file size header (some programs limit the file size to 2–4 GiB).[3] Although this is equivalent to about 6.8 hours of CD-quality audio (44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo), it is sometimes necessary to exceed this limit, especially when greater sampling rates or bit resolutions are required. The W64 format was therefore created for use in Sound Forge. Its 64-bit header allows for much longer recording times. The RF64 format specified by the European Broadcasting Union has also been created to solve this problem."

Wave64 (.w64)
Sony Wave64 audio format.
Promoted under the name Sony Pictures Digital Wave 64.
Designed to overcome the 4 GB file size limit of the Microsoft WAV format.
Binary file format.
Similar to the Microsoft RIFF/WAV format.
Typically stores uncompressed sampled audio as pulse-code modulation (PCM) data.
Also supports several codecs for compressed audio.
Supports arbitrary sampling frequency, arbitrary number of channels, and arbitrary bit depth.
Developed by Sonic Foundry, maintained by Sony.

It looks like the open source DAW "Ardour" probably created the file.

http://ardour.org/

There's a version for OSX available.

pancenter-

Sound Converter should be able to convert .w64 files:

http://www.dekorte.com/projects/shareware/SoundConverter/

Sorry - just noticed you tried Sound Converter without success - odd, because it's one of the import formats. If your file is also multi-channel w64, try Amadeus Pro.