Need Help doing batch conversion on Wav files. - by New Horizon
New Horizon on 10/11/2005 at 05:01
For the T3 Editor, it is necessary to have dummy wav files in place in order for the schemametafiles to be recompiled with oggs instead of wavs...otherwise, the perl script doesn't see the oggs and puts nothing in the metafile.
What I have been doing is rather simple. I open the .wav file in Wordpad, select all the garble, delete it and then save. Gives me a nice 0kb file.
Is there any way to do this as a batch conversion? With around 20,000 files...it could take awhile. LOL
ascottk on 10/11/2005 at 05:30
Quote Posted by New Horizon
For the T3 Editor, it is necessary to have dummy wav files in place in order for the schemametafiles to be recompiled with oggs instead of wavs...otherwise, the perl script doesn't see the oggs and puts nothing in the metafile.
What I have been doing is rather simple. I open the .wav file in Wordpad, select all the garble, delete it and then save. Gives me a nice 0kb file.
Is there any way to do this as a batch conversion? With around 20,000 files...it could take awhile. LOL
I've done that already & it seems there is a reason there's still wav files mixed in with the oggs. The short sounds (a footstep or ui stuff) sound really bad when they're compressed because they're small enough already. Oggs are good for long speeches or conversations. & yes it does take a while :bored:
New Horizon on 10/11/2005 at 05:35
Quote Posted by ascottk
I've done that already & it seems there is a reason there's still wav files mixed in with the oggs. The short sounds (a footstep or ui stuff) sound really bad when they're compressed because they're small enough already. Oggs are good for long speeches or conversations. & yes it does take a while :bored:
Did you empty all 20,000 wav files manually? I've been trying to do a batch conversion to make the files smaller in Adobe Audition but it keeps jamming. Oy, this is going to take forever. If I can get all the wave files converted to empty dummy files, it will knock 500 megs off the T3EnhancED installer.
ascottk on 10/11/2005 at 05:58
I used Adobe Audition's batch processing to silence & crop the wav files and convert to a really low resolution wav file (6000 Hz, 8 bits). It would choke on too many files so I had to do a certain amount every time. The file size ranged from 1 kb to 30+ kb (about 90% were 1kb).
From the work I did (thankfully I still kept the files) there's 21,169 dummy wav files. I zipping them up now to see how big the zip is:
about 6 megs . . .
New Horizon on 10/11/2005 at 06:05
Wow, a considerable difference. Once I get them converted, they will compress down even further with the installer. It seems to do a great job of getting the files as small as possible.
I've been trying to use the Adobe batch processing as well but for some reason, it keeps kicking me out...saying that the file is in use. I'm not trying to save it to the same file that it is opening, so I don't know what's up there.
New Horizon on 10/11/2005 at 16:20
Thanks a million! That's awesome. :)
