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How to record over 2GB in Traktor Pro? (pg. 2)
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| dj_macgyver |
| i've stitched together such traktor recordings in audacity. you shouldn't worry about it too much. just put the second recording behind the first one. zero overlap, zero gap. no speed correction necessary. export as mp3 and you should be fine :) |
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| keithos27 |
| sweet, i'll download audacity tonight and give it a crack. bummer about the WAV limitation thing. Traktor should be able to export as MP3. i can't be the only dj that's ever encountered this, lol. |
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| dj_macgyver |
| it's because a software that can encode mp3 usually has to pay licensing fees to the fraunhofer institute. at least when it's sold commercially. |
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| palm |
| what is this info about wavs cannot be bigger than 2GB? is that a fact or bull? thats 3 hours of music. i have 6 hour sets of mp3. could u record as mp3 maybe? |
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| dj_macgyver |
| quote: | Originally posted by palm
what is this info about wavs cannot be bigger than 2GB? is that a fact or bull? thats 3 hours of music. i have 6 hour sets of mp3. could u record as mp3 maybe? |
i'm confused about this too.
there's two limitations here. one is the 2gig file size limit on fat32 partitions (which is believed to be 4gb sometimes), and the other is a limitation within the wave file header, that only reserves 32bits for the file length - which practically equals to 4gb. (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIFF_WAVE for that)
the first limitation does not apply to macox native partitions (consider however: when saving to an external hard drive you haven't formatted yourself, you might be dealing with fat32 anyway) nor ntfs partitions when working with windows.
i have successfully saved & loaded wave files bigger than 2gb in audacity, but i haven't breached the 4gb limit yet. all other programs i tried refused to save more than 3h22min (= 2gb) on a macbook pro. this might be due to internal integer handling, where you lose one bit when you don't mark your variables unsigned. one bit loss leads to the effective file size limit being cut in half. |
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| palm |
| then this crappy wav format must die. oh well, two hours is the perfect lenght for anything though. |
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| david.michael |
| FWIW, I recorded almost 6 hours of audio via Audacity the other night. |
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| dj_macgyver |
| quote: | Originally posted by palm
then this crappy wav format must die. oh well, two hours is the perfect lenght for anything though. |
i think raw should have no limitations except for the ones inherited from the file system. but it lacks a header, so you will need to know what sampling frequency, bit rate, channel# and byte order your files are in. |
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| Ryan0751 |
| There's also AIFF. |
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| keithos27 |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
FWIW, I recorded almost 6 hours of audio via Audacity the other night. |
can i record my mixes in traktor using audacity, instead of traktor's internal recorder? if so, how do i set that up? |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by keithos27
can i record my mixes in traktor using audacity, instead of traktor's internal recorder? if so, how do i set that up? |
I think all you have to do is select the Mac's main output as the recording source... I can't remember if it allows you to do this by default or not. You may have to use Soundflower or some utility to do it. I'm sure someone else will chime in, it's been a while since I have done that.
I actually record output from a mixer so I don't have to worry about it anymore. I can't look right now because I'm at work...sorry! |
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