converting aiff files to 16 bit wavs???????

can anyone help me convert aiff files to 16 bit wavs so that my mpc 2000xl can read them? also...can this be done bulk/batch style? ya know...a lot at one time rather than one at a time?

You could do this with iTunes.

don't have a wav editor anymore. used to have cool edit pro. i do have itunes though. how do i do it in itunes or LAMPDOG....what wav editor should i use?

Don't bother with a wave editor if you are simply converting files. Go to Edit-preferences-advanced - importing and choose the wav encoder. Then drag and drop the files onto a playlist and select all ( ctrl a ) then go to Advanced then convert to wav. simple as pie...

featherboy wrote:You could do this with iTunes.

of course you could, but I doubt that this is a good idea. when converting from 24bit to 16bit you have to consider anti-aliasing issues (that's why dithering should be applied) and clipping may occure as well. i was just looking for programms to do this in linux and I realised that audacity's batch conversion ability seems to work pretty cool for this.... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Batch_Processing

the audacity-wiki also has some good info on dithering: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Dither

i'm not yet 100% sure if audacity will automatically guard clipping issues which might occure during bit-reduction... but since commandline conversion tools such as SOX also include an optional guarding function, I could imagine that audacity will also use a similar thing.

as far as SOX is concerned, that's a really cool program, however I didn't find a way to do batch conversions. however for doing things like this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... av-819739/ it's perfect.

both programmes are crossplattform by the way (linux/os x/windows)

d/l links:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://sox.sourceforge.net/