I’m just wondering if the audacity team is living in the stone age by not allowing saving of files larger than 4gb. Is it a fat32 issue?
Is there a workaround or alpha developer build that allows the saving of files larger than 4 gb??!?
This is a life or death h situation please provide a solution.
It’s a WAV format limitation due to the 32-bit ‘size’ field in the header. Try FLAC (lossless compression) or any format other than WAV.
Can I save 384 khz with flac?
That’s not sound. What is the actual job?
Koz
The job is to save a 384khz wave file that is bigger than 4gb as flac
Recording that with any quality would require a sampling frequency of close to 1,000KHz. That’s radio transmitter neighborhood.
You designed yourself right out of using a home computer with any software let alone Audacity.
Maybe a Data Recorder. That’s your Google Search.
There may be interesting shortcuts or cheat processes, but we won’t know until you part with more info about the job.
Koz
Thank you for that information. I will find my own way to do it.
Do you mean that you want to save a 384 kHz sine wave, or do you mean that you want to your file to have a sample rate of 384000 Hz?
In either case, unless you have specialist hardware, the file will have to be down-sampled on playback because normal sound cards don’t go that high in the analogue domain, and speakers / headphones don’t go anywhere near that high.
if i may pop in, do you mean 384 kbps?
as in the bit-rate of the file (Data rate per second) ?
if you do, a nice MPEG-4 (.m4a) audio file would be fine at 384kbps (although a clean WAV file runs at about 1400kbps, which is a fantastic bitrate for audio, something like Dolby Digital is only about ~600kbps of compression, so a 384kbps audio file should be fine, mate)
even a mid-range mainboard/motherboard built-in audio adapter can do 96kHz these days, but 384kHz is a bit of overkill friend - just a suggestion of course. even audio studiohouses just mess around with 96kHz audio usually (most cases). this is why I am asking if you meant kbps (data rate) heh