Hungerdunger Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I need to free up some space on my Hard Drive. When I first had my RH1 I uploaded some old tracks MD tracks in PCM mode and also created a WAV copy of each one. IIRC it was because I wanted to edit some of them in Audacity and I believe they need to be in WAV format for that program.Obviously these files are pretty big, so I need to get rid of one format; does it really matter which one. I'm pretty ignorant on this topic, but would I be right to think that WAV files would be more versatile should I want to convert them to another format like FLAC or MP3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 keep the WAV's , you gotta surf sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 They are essentially the same, except the PCM ones are actually encrypted files. They are the same, quality-wise.Keep the WAV files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Try lossless compression like flac, about half the size of wav and can be fully restored if necessary unlike mp3, which is a form of lossy compression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srizvi1 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Is burning to CD or DVD not an option? That's what I'm planning to do with all those recorded .wav files that I will (yeah right) get around to editing and going through one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 You can do whatever you'd like with the WAV files. It's the PCM files (with the .OMA extension) that have DRM and can't be coped to other computers/etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THIS SUCKS Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 i know he should keep the wave files but cant the oma's be created without copy protection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 The .oma's are copy protected by default when you upload them from your Hi-MD. The copy protection can be removed by using the file conversion tool, but they'd still be in the proprietary .oma format. Removing the copy protection of compressed ATRAC recordings (Hi-SP/Hi-LP) instead of decompressing can make sense, but why would you want to keep a proprietary format (.oma) instead of an open structure (.wav) for pcm recordings? The content is the same, but .wav can be used by most audio applications, whereas .oma is Sony only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcou Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 The .oma's are copy protected by default when you upload them from your Hi-MD. The copy protection can be removed by using the file conversion tool, but they'd still be in the proprietary .oma format. Removing the copy protection of compressed ATRAC recordings (Hi-SP/Hi-LP) instead of decompressing can make sense, but why would you want to keep a proprietary format (.oma) instead of an open structure (.wav) for pcm recordings? The content is the same, but .wav can be used by most audio applications, whereas .oma is Sony only.The advantage of the OMA format is that it supports tags (tittles, like mp3) and attached image (the cover for example to be displayed with mz-DH10P).Wav do not support tags.So the best is AAL (Advanced atrac lossless without copy protection). it is equal to wave or pcm in term of quality and supports tags and image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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