nchtj

information I have learned since my last post is that we do offer the ability to open 24/32 bit files, but you have to explicitly ask us for it first. We don't support saving to 24/32 bit though, so bear that in mind. Can you really tell the difference between a 16 bit and 24 bit file though? I have seen studies to suggest the difference in terms of what you hear is minimal at best...

all I can suggest is to go to videohelp.com, apart from that you may have to do a google search.

you can use Wavepad, our sound editor tool nch.com.au/wavepad

you're not overlooking it, we just don't support it yet. We are investigating support for an array of phone formats, but it won't be available for use within the next few weeks at least. We are aware this is a highly sought after feature for Switch (mobile phone format conversion), so I would ask you all to please bear with us while we try to develop the best solution possible.

don't know sorry.

sorry, I should probably explain a few things first about audio cds - since I live and breathe anything audio related, I keep forgetting lots of people are not like me, so sorry for that. When you look at an audio CD in windows explorer, you will see the files on it have file extension .cda. These .cda files do not contain any audio itself though, they are just links to the real audio music. Internally, audio cd music is actually 44.1khz 16bit stereo PCM wave files, which are totally UNCOMPRESSED. It is not possible to compress audio CD music as you are asking, because audio CD music cannot be stored in any other format. So with that in mind, how much audio can you have on a CD? If you are using a 650mb CD, you can put 74 minutes of music on there. A 700mb CD will hold up to 80 minutes of music. As a side note, if you do not care about playing your CD in a standard CD or car player, you are free to burn music in "Data" mode, whereby you can put mp3 files on the CD - this will allow you to put much more music onto the disc than an audio CD will allow.

unfortunately you might be out of luck, nobody running a legitimate online music store will give you songs in mp3 format, because mp3 files do not support copy protection. Anything you download online will be usually of either wma or aac format, which both include copy protection. sorry!

Well if you read the Switch documentation (General Usage section), you would see we don't support the APE format in our software. We definitely have plans to though, but it won't happen within the next couple of weeks unfortunately.

Well if it worked fine before, clearly the problem doesn't lie with Switch. There could be possibly something strange going in with the specific files, but it's hard to say. Any chance you could send a sample file that doesn't work to me at tj[at]nch.com.au ? Otherwise it is difficult to help you any further.... Are all the files m4a files, or are some m4p files? m4p is a copy protected format and doesn't work with our software.

Good idea! We'll see what we can do. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Hi, First convert your 64kHz vox files to PCM .wav format. This will allow you to convert to whatever sample rate you like (after selecting .wav format in the Switch window, click the "Encoder Settings" button to set the configuration). Next, convert the .wav files to .mp3 format.

we did deliberate over the "changing sample rates" issue for awhile, but decided not to in the end. We found when using it that it caused a number of complications that would probably cause more frustration with customers than anything else. If you really want to do this, convert your file to .wav first, and choose whatever sample rate you like. Then convert to mp3 afterwards.

As it says in the Switch documentation, we are unable to provide any support for formats we do not support in Switch.

use Express Burn www.nch.com.au/burn Burn your CD in "Audio" mode (when you open Express Burn you will see what I mean).

m4p = mpeg4 protected files "protected" means copy protected, so no you won't be able to convert them to other formats (well not legally anyway).

lny98: do what 4Himintulsa said to convert the file from stereo to mono. If you play a mono source through a stereo output, it plays the mono source equally on both channels.

The .aud format is an internal format in our software and cannot be extracted/converted to other formats.

1) in the near future no, in the mid-term future probably.

sorry nothing's changed, we still don't know anything about this format - have you contacted jvc ?

Please download a program called "GSpot", available here: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ This program will tell you all the important information about your audio files. Just drag and drop your audio files into the GSpot main window and let the program do the rest. In the case of your .wav files, the information you need to look at is in the right-side middle area of the window, namely the "Codec", "Bitrate" and "Fs" (sampling rate). Pick one of your .wav files that doesn't work, and please tell us what GSpot says about it.

yeah sorry it is missing from that page, get it here: ftp://ftp.audiochannel.net/components/shndec.exe

wma is a file format - how do you play an rax file in a file format? perhaps you mean wmp? ask microsoft perhaps?

did you read the Switch documentation where it says what file types are supported? you can't convert amr, but we are certainly investigating supporting a whole array of mobile phone formats for a future release of Switch.

yea that could be the issue, you have an MPEG2 layer 3 file not an MPEG1 layer 3 file. At the bottom of the post are the sample rate and bitrate combinations to look up in order to figure out what MPEG layer 3 format your file will end up as. So for example, if your original file was sampled at 44.1kHz and you encoded your mp3 at 32kbps, you would get an MPEG1 layer 3 file. But if your original file was only sampled at 16kHz and you encoded at 32kpbs, your file would end up being an MPEG2 layer 3 file. I would point out that any mp3 reader properly supporting LAME would be able to read ANY mp3 file you made in Switch. But I am guessing your player doesn't have full LAME support, which isn't out of the ordinary by any means - most commercial grade mp3 hardware players primarily support fraunhofer mp3 files. MPEG1 layer III samplerates(kHz): 32 44.1 48 bitrates(kbs): 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 160 192 224 256 320 MPEG2 layer III samplerates(kHz): 16 22.05 24 bitrates(kbs): 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 144 160 MPEG2.5 layer III samplerates(kHz): 8 11.025 12 bitrates(kbs): 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 144 160

Only in the latest 1.05 version did we add the .rmj file extension to our default list of file extensions Switch looks out for. You could still load .rmj files previously, but you had to do it a slightly different way, and I don't think all users quite noticed that. So to correct you Scott, you can convert from .rmj to other formats in the free version. See the Switch help documentation General Usage section if you don't believe me.