Wave, aiff, sd2

Does anyone know the difference of wave, aiff and sound designer 2 files?
I dont know which one to choose

There's no difference when it comes to what you hear. You may just find that if you are transferring stuff between yourself and someone who owns and old protools system that SD2 works better, as it was designed by digidesign, and sometimes programs on PC's are more compatible with WAV.
Personally I use AIFF and have NEVER had a problem with it. Plus it takes seconds to convert it anyways.

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2. Check bounce settings: A WAV/AIFF file should have 44.100 kHz samplerate and at least 16 bit. This is the standard for bouncing CD quality. Maybe you messed things up for WAV by reducing samplerate and/or bitdepth.
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I understand what you are saying about QT not being able to export audio. But what then was exporting audio to CD's in the .wav or .aiff format before I downloaded QT 7.1.3?
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Exporting project as audio file (wav)?

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Garageband seeing 16 bit wav files as 8 bit.

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It was not it was wav
aiff not wav
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So how and why did Garageband suddenly see then as 8 bit?
I lost my whole session.
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Export to MP3, AIFF, etc.

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What you need to do is:
Read the section in the manual about "BOUNCING"
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ITunes and AIFF/FLAC support, 24-bit music, HDTracks etc

Ok guys I know this has probably been asked before, but I have done my research and most topics are pretty old so I will proceed to ask this again so that I can get answers as of today (January 2014).
First question is, does iTunes support 24-bit music? If so, in which of these formats (ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF) ?
Second question, does iTunes support hi-res sample rates? If so, in which formats and how high?
Please answer in this format:
ALAC up to xxx Khz
FLAC up to xxx Khz
WAV up to xxx Khz
AIFF up to xxx Khz
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I ran into the same problem with my FLAC files. It's hard to compromise quality, especially for albums by Hans Zimmer, John Murphy, and Two Steps from ****, but tis life. If you're not interested in downloading some third party program to convert like I wasn't, there is this nifty little site that converts music for you for free. No ads, no tricky layouts, just simple upload, convert, and download the file when it's done. They offer a pretty limited selection of conversion options, but better than not at all.
Formats: mp3, wav, wma, ogg
Quality (kbit/s): 96, 128, 192, 320
Link: http://media.io/
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Exchange mp3 for aiff (reconnect)

Hi I am working on a project right now in Logic Express 7, it's kind of a collage of mp3 song mixed together to create a new piece. My problem is that logic is getting really slow when I work in the arrange window if I move the cursor the rainbow is spinning for a while before I can hear anything. Usually with midi and aiff files I have no issues. I am suspecting the mp3 format not to be well supported in that version. I just did drag and drop of my mp3's just like someone suggested before. Right now I am trying to convert all the mp3's that I am using in this project to aiff. My question is how to replace the mp3 files by the aiff files without loosing my editing? I don't want to start from scratch again, how is that possible? (I would need something like reconnect media like in FCP)
Thanks

Sure, Logic can do this, but:
MP3s can not be edited destructively and have to converted into wav/aiff/SDII first if you want to actually change the pitch/tempo of the file in the sample editor, There are many tools to line up tempo and speed like various pitch shifters, pitch and time mashine, beatmapping and others. Logic is a full DAW also capable of Remixing and DJing stuff.

[RESOLVED] MPD can't add files to db, says ignoring unrecognized file

Sorry to bother you guys with this, but I have searched a while on google and the forums and come up empty.
I'm trying to add some music to my database with mpd and ncmpcpp. I start mpd and it starts fine, and start ncmpcpp and it starts fine, and hit the 'u' key to update. Then I look at my library. It has all the folders that are in my music folder, but none of the .mp3 files are listed. So I started mpd with
mpd --verbose --stdout --no-daemon
And hit the 'u' key in ncmpcpp again, and for every file in my music folder, mpd says such things as
update: ignoring unrecognized file Snow Patrol/Chocolate.mp3
I am running mpd as a user (not as root or as a daemon) and even then I checked all the permissions on all the relevant files and directories and they all seem to be good.
I searched a lot and didn't find this error. Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it?
Last edited by kens (2011-11-16 22:25:47)

Here's the output of mpd --version:
mpd (MPD: Music Player Daemon) 0.16.5
Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Warren Dukes <[email protected]>
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Max Kellermann <[email protected]>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Supported decoders:
[mad] mp3 mp2
[vorbis] ogg oga
[oggflac] ogg oga
[flac] flac
[sndfile] wav aiff aif au snd paf iff svx sf voc w64 pvf xi htk caf sd2
[audiofile] wav au aiff aif
[faad] aac
[mp4ff] m4a m4b mp4
[mpcdec] mpc
[wavpack] wv
[modplug] 669 amf ams dbm dfm dsm far it med mdl mod mtm mt2 okt s3m stm ult umx xm
[ffmpeg] 16sv 3g2 3gp 4xm 8svx aa3 aac ac3 afc aif aifc aiff al alaw amr anim apc ape asf atrac au aud avi avm2 avs bap bfi c93 cak cin cmv cpk daud dct divx dts dv dvd dxa eac3 film flac flc fli fll flx flv g726 gsm gxf iss m1v m2v m2t m2ts m4a m4b m4v mad mj2 mjpeg mjpg mka mkv mlp mm mmf mov mp+ mp1 mp2 mp3 mp4 mpc mpeg mpg mpga mpp mpu mve mvi mxf nc nsv nut nuv oga ogm ogv ogx oma ogg omg psp pva qcp qt r3d ra ram rl2 rm rmvb roq rpl rvc shn smk snd sol son spx str swf tgi tgq tgv thp ts tsp tta xa xvid uv uv2 vb vid vob voc vp6 vmd wav wma wmv wsaud wsvga wv wve
Supported outputs:
shout null fifo alsa ao oss pulse jack httpd recorder
Supported encoders:
null vorbis lame wave flac
Supported protocols:
file:// http:// mms:// mmsh:// mmst:// mmsu:// gopher:// rtp:// rtsp:// rtmp:// rtmpt:// rtmps://
It seems to support mp3 but it's still giving the "ignoring unrecognized file" thing.

Quicktime VS ITunes

I download alot of soundfiles...many are not songs but for music and sound design...I would like to doubleclick on a file and have Quicktime open it instead of ITUNES adding it to the ITUNES library...This way I can quickly go through files without having to deleat them in ITUNES playlist as well as off harddrive when I don't like sound....I can download AIF , AIFF, wave and SD2 files with quicktime as default player...but if the wave file is green instead of the usual QT Blue+white pix , then Itunes will do it's thing...any thoughts?
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