converting wavs

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i record most everything in 24bit at 96khz. however, i recently discovered that you need to convert to 16bit at 44.1khz to burn to cd. i know how to convert to 16bit in cakewalk, but i'm stuck trying to get 96 to 44.1. does anyone know how to do this withing cakewalk? and if not, are there any wav convertors that will do this? thanks
 
There was a recent posting (about a week ago) that was on the same subject and the resulting census was that no, you can't convert 96 to 44K in Sonar. One guy said that he couldn't go from 48 to 44.

You might be able to do it if you first convert it to MP3 and then convert that to 44K 16 wav. Don't know for sure if that would work.
 
You might be able to do it if you first convert it to MP3 and then convert that to 44K 16 wav. Don't know for sure if that would work.
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You don't want to do this. MP3 is a lossy compression format which has much lower fidelity than 16 bit 44.1 .wav files. It will competely defeat the purpose of recording at higher resolutions in the first place.

Wavelab will allow you to do sample rate conversions. Probably Sound Forge as well.
 
dachay2tnr, good call on that "convert to MP3 first, then WAV suggestion.

Probably most newer stereo WAV editors will do this (older ones might not be able to open files with sample resolutions of 24 bits and sampling rates above 48kHz). Sound Forge 5 and CoolEdit 2000 both do. I'm not sure about Sound Forge XP 5...
 
Yeah. I agree with Dach and Spin. Converting to MP3 will defeat the purpose -> definition it is lower fidelity. I was just putting it out there as a quicky work around solution. But it is definitely not something you would want to do as a standard conversion technic. Thanks for pointing that out guys.

Nemal
 
I am in congruence with the rest of the consensus. You shouldn't convert it to MP3 format. You will lose too much info.

:D

spin
 
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