Converting Files to Wav Format

[BassoonLady]

Why would you want to convert files into wav format?

Does it speed up making an audio CD?

Edited July 2, 2006 by BassoonLady

[Syrius]

That, and no DRM lock of any type, so you can transfer, backup or archive your music.

[tekdroid]

Why would you want to convert files into wav format?

If you store your audio in FLAC format (or whatever), converting to WAV is necessary to losslessly transfer your audio to Hi-MD (linear PCM). Because Sony still hasn't woken up and decided to support some file formats natively in its hardware, like its competitors have.

So that's one reason.

For archival, it's not the best because it doesn't allow proper tagging and consumes the most space. But it's a good "lowest common denominator" format that just about every piece of audio software will accept - and it's far easier to work with when editing compared to compressed formats.

Edited July 2, 2006 by tekdroid

[A440]

Bassoonlady, when you upload your recordings from your MD unit to your computer, SonicStage saves them as .oma files. .oma is Sony's own format and incompatible with other programs (unless you have SonicStage installed).

Converting the files to .wav takes them out of SonicStage's clutches and turns them into something that just about every software and hardware player and sound editing program can read.

The files on a prerecorded CD are .wav files, and when you burn a conventional CD for your CD player, you are burning .wav files.