Subject:problem opening compressed wav

Posted by: Catie

Date:6/6/2002 3:41:01 AM

How do i import a compressed wav file into sound forge?

I am having problem importing a compressed audio files into sound forge 5.0. When I tried opening the file,
error says " the file is compressed and require a microsoft audio compression manager ( acm) compatible driver."

i went to control panel>sound>hardware tab>audio codec>properties tab> it shows the microsoft IMA ADPCM driver is enabled and working properly.

what could be wrong?
could it be the file format of the file i wish to import? bec when i click open, the file format reads unknown compression instead of the usual PCM.
The imported file was recorded with Dalet 5.1

How do i import a compressed wav file into sound forge?
thanks a lot!

Subject:RE: problem opening compressed wav

Reply by: Vocalpoint

Date:6/6/2002 9:29:28 AM

This sounds like the file is not a .wav or not compatible with Soundforge.

Cuzin B

Subject:RE: problem opening compressed wav

Reply by: rraud

Date:6/7/2002 9:21:18 PM

The compressed format SF uses is .pca (Perfect Clarity Audio). It is a loss-less compression format.... and works great. (Winzip only yields about 10% on .wav files) To my knowlege SF will not open other compression schemes other than MP3, which is a "lossy" compression format. So, you must convert it to a .wav in some other program.

Subject:RE: problem opening compressed wav

Reply by: ATP

Date:6/7/2002 9:22:49 PM

can't you uncompress it to a PCM wave file? it'd open then in SF