Loss of quality / aiff to wav

[WuLee]

Hi all!

I recieved some recordings from the studio in aiff-format and forwarded them to the cd-manufactory. now they say that they need wav-files. can I convert those with audacity without the tiniest loss of sound-quality?

thanks for the support!
WuLee

[steve]

16 bit? 24 bit? 32 bit? 32 bit float?
Converting any of these will have minimal loss, but if you want zero loss then you need to state the details.

[WuLee]

Both in standard 16 bit, 44100 Hz, sorry.

[kozikowski]

Already alarm bells are ringing. How is it possible that an artistic production format is foreign to a CD company, and how it's possible they can't convert it... but OK.

Set Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit Stereo. Restart Audacity and make sure the preferences stuck.

Open the show in Audacity. Export > Other Uncompressed Formats. WAV (Microsoft) at PCM 16-bit Signed.

That should be a straight-across transfer. The two formats are sisters.

You won't see the "AIF" or the "WAV" extension unless you force Windows to show you file extensions in the file names. I wouldn't dream of running Windows without extensions.

Koz

[steve]

Already alarm bells are ringing. How is it possible that an artistic production format is foreign to a CD company, and how it's possible they can't convert it..

I agree with Koz that it seems extremely strange that a CD company cannot handle 16 bit AIFF.

Open the show in Audacity. Export > Other Uncompressed Formats. WAV (Microsoft) at PCM 16-bit Signed.

Those instructions are not quite accurate for Windows.

This is the Windows 1.2.x part of the forum, so I'll assume that the settings for Audacity 1.2.6 on Windows are required.

Edit menu > Preferences > File Format > Uncompressed Export Format = WAV (Microsoft 16 bit PCM)

Project menu > Import Audio, then select the AIFF file to import.

File menu > Export as WAV.