Adobe Audition 3.0 will not load recordings that are 8 hours long?

Question

I have been taking day long recording sessions and wanting to review them from projects and notes. Someday these recordings can be over 8 hours in length and Audition will only load the first 2-3 hours of this.  Does anyone else have this issue?  How did you take care of this issue?  I am just looking for any information.  I have tried to record in both .WAV and .MP3 and it does the same thing.  I would really like to be able to find a way to make this work.   Thanks.

Answer 1

wesley_shook wrote:
I am actually not using it to record it live.  I am trying to import files off of an Olympus voice recorder and then edit them into sections through Audition.   The complete file will not load up.  It will only show the first 3 hours of a recording and then not see the rest.  But if I open the file in Windows Media Player it will play all 6-8 hours of the recording.  Any ideas of why it will not open the complete file?
This is a slightly longer explanation of what ryclark wrote, and with probably the only solution that will work for you. I say probably, because I haven't ever needed to do this for myself. Others have reported that it works, and that's what I'm relying on here!
So, what format are you opening the file in in Windows Media Player? If you open the MP3 it won't have a problem, because the MP3 file is severely compressed. It's only when you expand it out and try to save (or open, even) it so that it looks like a wav file that you have the problems. Because of the wav file size limit, you can't have a single wav file at anything like a sensible sample rate that will last that long. This isn't an Audition limit, it's imposed by the maximum address size you can write to the file header.
The way around this is to import the file into Multitrack view, because this has the ability to split files and use the extra chunks in the broadcast wav specification to appear to open a much larger file. In reality it isn't though - it's just stitching together the several max length wav files that expanding the MP3 file out created. But you wouldn't be able to save this as a giant wav file, simply because of the addressing limitiations, which remain. What it should do though is let you extract sections from it, and open and subsequently save them in Edit view.