Re: [ARSCLIST] WAV Joiner (was Scully Tape machine users group)

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:59 PM 2007-12-15, you wrote:
> If I may inject an old note, does anyone know of a reliable program 
> that will join WAV and other files of like format?  I have tried 
> several, but they seem to end up crashing my machine.
> I have the HiFi MP3 joiner/splitter program, which is excellent for 
> MP3.  Is there a companion to this one for WAV files?

Hello, Howard,

Please don't hijack someone else's thread with your questions.

Most of us use EDITING software to join WAV files and may drop a few 
samples here and there or add some space or whatever. I can't see the 
need to do this type of joining blindly (see last paragaph).

As I've mentioned in several other posts, I use SAMPLITUDE and 
Magix's Audio Cleaning Lab is a low-cost, consumer version.

Samplitude (and other good programs) is to audio as Photoshop is to 
digital image manipulation. $300 gets you a good version of 
Samplitude without multitrack capabilities. ACL is $40 or so.

Goldwave is another program I use for some batch processing and it is 
quite good, but I haven't tried editing in it. Audacity is free, but 
I found I struggled with it compared to Samplitude (but that could be 
just that its model was foreign to me).

Yes, there is a learning curve to all of this but there are tutorials 
on the web and the manuals tell you a good deal. It's no different 
from learning a word processor or a spreadsheet. There are also more 
appropriate lists and discussion groups, I suspect, for learning the 
basics of digital audio editing. This list is more about collections 
of recordings and their preservation.

We still know nothing about you, your education/expertise/experience 
(though we can surmise you are a beginner in digital audio), your 
professional goals with all of this work, etc. As I said, we'd like 
to help, but we'd also like you to spend a few weeks reading 
appropriate web pages, books, and learning about this as part of a 
self-study effort. We (Mike and I and others) have posted lots of 
links in previous messages, have you read them?

Good luck!

Cheers,

Richard


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