won't read my .wav files?

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won't read my .wav files?

By DPM Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:17 pm
the 500 supports .wav files obviously. i havent used anything but .wav files up to this point and im trying to load up the samples i chopped in sound forge and saved as .wav files in my 500. i cant preview them and when i try to load them, it says unknown file format. i have enough space so thats not the problem . what the hell?

Re: won't read my .wav files?

By seestern Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:08 pm
Hey guys,

im new here in the forum, i've registered cause I got an mpc 500 now,

so I've watched out for the problem that i have in this forum.

i think this issue right here in this thread is my problem, i've got high rate samples which my mpc doesnt want to read.

i think thouse samples are in 24 bit.

Do you know a programm to change lots of WAV sounds to 16 bit in a row.
I dont want to change the bitrate of each sample one after another.
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Re: won't read my .wav files?

By BLiTzZD Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:11 pm
seestern wrote:Hey guys,

im new here in the forum, i've registered cause I got an mpc 500 now,

so I've watched out for the problem that i have in this forum.

i think this issue right here in this thread is my problem, i've got high rate samples which my mpc doesnt want to read.

i think thouse samples are in 24 bit.

Do you know a programm to change lots of WAV sounds to 16 bit in a row.
I dont want to change the bitrate of each sample one after another.


Most programs will allow you to convert multiple samples, but they aren't free.

The free trial ones are usually one at a time

Re: won't read my .wav files?

By fredlib Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:28 am
seestern wrote:Hey guys,

im new here in the forum, i've registered cause I got an mpc 500 now,

so I've watched out for the problem that i have in this forum.

i think this issue right here in this thread is my problem, i've got high rate samples which my mpc doesnt want to read.

i think thouse samples are in 24 bit.

Do you know a programm to change lots of WAV sounds to 16 bit in a row.
I dont want to change the bitrate of each sample one after another.


http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

Re: won't read my .wav files?

By seestern Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:07 am
Many thanks fredlib!

Re: won't read my .wav files?

By beetle Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:50 am
Menco wrote:Audacity.

It's free


i'm pretty sure audacity doesn't do batch processing like he wants. great free program though.
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Re: won't read my .wav files?

By Menco Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:09 pm
Sorry, didn't read Seesterns post properly. My eyes didn't catch the bulk thing. :oops:

Re: won't read my .wav files?

By emayallday Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:03 pm
im completely new to the MPC 500. i cut a sample from an MP3 on WavePad Editor and made sure the sample rate was 16 when i saved it to the MPC via USB. the MPC still says "file format invalid" whenever i try to load a sample. what else am i doing wrong?

Re: won't read my .wav files?

By pidgin Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:14 pm
I realise this is an old thread, but it came up top in Google. So for anyone else wondering, here's how to batch-convert WAVs to 44.1k 16 bit from the OS X terminal.

1. Make sure you have installed Homebrew.

2. Use Homebrew to install sox:
Code: Select allbrew install sox

3. Create a folder where your samples will go. Make a shell script with the following contents and save it as conv.sh:
Code: Select allfor f in *.wav ; do sox -S "$f" -r 44.1k -b 16 "${f%.wav}abcxyza.wav" ; done
for f in *abcxyza.wav ; do mv "$f" "${f%abcxyza.wav}.wav" ; done

4. Change permissions for that file:
Code: Select allchmod 755 conv.sh

Now if you run
Code: Select all./conv.sh
any .wav in that folder will be converted. *This overwrites the original wavs so make sure you're working with copies!!* Enjoy!
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