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yash-crisp
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Use goldwave for changing wav to pcm 16bit using command lin

Post by yash-crisp »

Hi,

How can I convert a wav files codec to PCM 16 bit using just the command line, I can't find docs or reference to guide me through.
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Re: Use goldwave for changing wav to pcm 16bit using command

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I've never used GoldWave that way but look up Batch Processing in the user manual.

Or if you like command line programs try SoX.
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Re: Use goldwave for changing wav to pcm 16bit using command

Post by yash-crisp »

The thing is I have a wav file of a call center whose mediainfo is :

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ion@aurora:~/Inbound$ mediainfo 48401-3405-48403--18042018170000.wav 
General
Complete name                            : 48401-3405-48403--18042018170000.wav
Format                                   : Wave
File size                                : 327 KiB
Duration                                 : 4mn 11s
Overall bit rate                         : 10.7 Kbps

Audio
Format                                   : G.723.1
Codec ID                                 : A100
Duration                                 : 4mn 11s
Bit rate                                 : 10.7 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 8 000 Hz
Stream size                              : 327 KiB (100%)
What I wanna do is convert that file to 16bit PCM but ffmpeg and sox fails but Goldwave does it pretty easily.

This is a call center recordings.

Can you help with this issue?
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Re: Use goldwave for changing wav to pcm 16bit using command

Post by GoldWave Inc. »

If you can open the files in GoldWave, then you can set up a Batch Processing preset to convert the file to Wave with "PCM 16 bit, mono" attributes. You can then use that preset on the command line. See the Command Line section in the help/manual for details ('-process").
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