Can anyone recommend some software (Mac) that can easily batch convert 24bit .WAV’s to 16bit (sample rate conversion would be great). Something easy to use and ‘no frills’ is what I’m after.
I’ve got a sampler I want to load up, but it only accepts 16bit .WAV files (and the majority of my library is now 24bit ).
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If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes. For many popular formats the artist and album metadata is transferred seamlessly between the old and new files. Max can even split a single audio file into multiple tracks using a cue sheet.
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It will do a search in current directory for all files which have extension ending with .wav and then convert them to signed 16bit pcm with sample rate of 44,1kHz and save them with the same file name as original files only with _16 appended at the end of the name.
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