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Truncated Recordings
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:19 pm
by sfshr9
I just recorded exactly 10 hours from Spotify. Recording never stopped. File saved as .wav was about 6GB, but is only about 4 hours long. Can anyone tell me why/how to avoid problem in future? Thanks.
Re: Truncated Recordings
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:31 pm
by steve
The WAV format is limited to files that are less than 4 GB, 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 GB).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Limitations
If you still have the Audacity Project, you can select sections of the recording and Export each section using "File > Export Selection", or you could create a label track and use "Export Multiple" (see here:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Split ... ate_tracks )