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Subject:so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....? Posted by: dan335 Date:2/1/2003 1:45:00 AM could someone walk me through the process as if i was, say, 7 yrs old? i have a 4 minute wav file that i want to convert from 24-bit to 16-bit and render that back to a cd as a wav. thanks all!
Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....? Reply by: philsayer Date:2/1/2003 8:08:07 AM For 24-bit to 16-bit conversion go to Process> Bit Depth Converter. It's self-explanatory from there onwards. I'm not sure what you mean by the title of your post, though... can you load the file into Sound Forge? To put the WAV file onto a CD, use any burning s/ware, or later versions of SF. At the risk of seeming patronising, but bearing in mind your "7-yr old" comment, are you certain you want it on a CD as a WAV, rather than as a CD audio (.cda) file? A WAV file on a CD-ROM will play only on a computer. An audio CD will play on your computer AND on your other CD players. The only real difference between the two is the track data which is added to a WAV to make a .cda. (In essence, before I get howled down!)
Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....? Reply by: dan335 Date:2/1/2003 11:04:13 AM i'm having a problem getting my wav file data to play. i don't know what i'm doing but the data won't go to the time line. i'm sure its something easy which makes me feel pretty stupid but i can'seem to figure out the procedure to follow to get my song(in wav 24-bit format) onto the file. my appologies for my ineptitude.
Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....? Reply by: MarkWWW Date:2/2/2003 4:43:51 AM It's a little hard to understand what your problem is - the way you describe things doesn't use phrases that I, at least, can make much sense of. But I'm going to take a guess that your "the data won't go to the time line" means, in terms I would understand, "I can't open the audio file in Sound Forge". If so, try this: 1. Open Sound Forge. 2. Open Windows Explorer and browse to the directory where you .WAV file is located. 3. Drag the .WAV file from Windows Explorer and drop it onto the background of the Sound Forge window. (There are other ways of getting audio data into SF of course, via the File\|Open... menu, but that is probably the easiest to explain and to do.) From there, you can convert it to 16-bit using the Bit-Depth Converter as described by philsayer. Then, as philsayer says, you can burn the resulting file to a CD, either as a .WAV on a data CD or as a track on an audio CD. Again it is difficult to know from the way you describe things which of these you actually want to do, but I'm guessing that by your "render that back to a cd as a wav" you really mean, in terms I can understand, "I want to make it a track on an audio CD that can be played on a HiFi CD player". If so, and assuming you want to burn the CD with SF rather than any other CD burning software you have available: 1. Put a fresh CD-R blank in your CD writer. 2. Click on Tools\|Burn CD... and then Add Audio. 3. After you have completed addng all the tracks you wish to add (if there are more than one) click on Close Disk. 4. Play the disk on your HiFi CD player. If this doesn't help, perhaps you could describe what it is you are actually doing, what you expect to happen, what is actually happening, and how/why it isn't what you were expecting to happen. Then we might have a better chance of helping. Best of luck. Mark
Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....? Reply by: vanblah Date:2/2/2003 4:22:58 PM dan335 - are you getting any errors? What version of Sound Forge are you using? Knowing these things will help people with troubleshooting your problem. Doug

Subject:so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....?

Posted by: dan335

Date:2/1/2003 1:45:00 AM

could someone walk me through the process as if i was, say, 7 yrs old? i have a 4 minute wav file that i want to convert from 24-bit to 16-bit and render that back to a cd as a wav. thanks all!

Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....?

Reply by: philsayer

Date:2/1/2003 8:08:07 AM

For 24-bit to 16-bit conversion go to Process> Bit Depth Converter. It's self-explanatory from there onwards.

I'm not sure what you mean by the title of your post, though... can you load the file into Sound Forge?

To put the WAV file onto a CD, use any burning s/ware, or later versions of SF. At the risk of seeming patronising, but bearing in mind your "7-yr old" comment, are you certain you want it on a CD as a WAV, rather than as a CD audio (.cda) file?

A WAV file on a CD-ROM will play only on a computer. An audio CD will play on your computer AND on your other CD players. The only real difference between the two is the track data which is added to a WAV to make a .cda. (In essence, before I get howled down!)

Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....?

Reply by: dan335

Date:2/1/2003 11:04:13 AM

i'm having a problem getting my wav file data to play. i don't know what i'm doing but the data won't go to the time line. i'm sure its something easy which makes me feel pretty stupid but i can'seem to figure out the procedure to follow to get my song(in wav 24-bit format) onto the file. my appologies for my ineptitude.

Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....?

Reply by: MarkWWW

Date:2/2/2003 4:43:51 AM

It's a little hard to understand what your problem is - the way you describe things doesn't use phrases that I, at least, can make much sense of.

But I'm going to take a guess that your "the data won't go to the time line" means, in terms I would understand, "I can't open the audio file in Sound Forge".

If so, try this:

1. Open Sound Forge.
2. Open Windows Explorer and browse to the directory where you .WAV file is located.
3. Drag the .WAV file from Windows Explorer and drop it onto the background of the Sound Forge window.

(There are other ways of getting audio data into SF of course, via the File|Open... menu, but that is probably the easiest to explain and to do.)

From there, you can convert it to 16-bit using the Bit-Depth Converter as described by philsayer.

Then, as philsayer says, you can burn the resulting file to a CD, either as a .WAV on a data CD or as a track on an audio CD. Again it is difficult to know from the way you describe things which of these you actually want to do, but I'm guessing that by your "render that back to a cd as a wav" you really mean, in terms I can understand, "I want to make it a track on an audio CD that can be played on a HiFi CD player".

If so, and assuming you want to burn the CD with SF rather than any other CD burning software you have available:

1. Put a fresh CD-R blank in your CD writer.
2. Click on Tools|Burn CD... and then Add Audio.
3. After you have completed addng all the tracks you wish to add (if there are more than one) click on Close Disk.
4. Play the disk on your HiFi CD player.

If this doesn't help, perhaps you could describe what it is you are actually doing, what you expect to happen, what is actually happening, and how/why it isn't what you were expecting to happen. Then we might have a better chance of helping.

Best of luck.

Mark

Subject:RE: so i double click the icon, load the data disk and....?

Reply by: vanblah

Date:2/2/2003 4:22:58 PM

dan335 - are you getting any errors? What version of Sound Forge are you using? Knowing these things will help people with troubleshooting your problem.

Doug