nchtj

Switch does not currently support loading of video files, use WavePad instead : http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad

The current issue is that Windows itself does not allow us to do this, because it does not allow communicatation between the Switch window and the command line prompt. You will find this is the same story with any Windows-based application. We are currently investigating ways we can work around the Windows limitation.

1. Load your files 2. Specify your folder to save to 3. Specify an output format and configure its settings 4. Hit the convert button :-)

ok we'll look at this one thanks.

does the sample aac file on our website work for you ? http://www.nch.com.au/acm/formats.html http://www.nch.com.au/acm/sample.PCM.16bit.8000Hz.Mono.aac

Golden Records : http://www.nch.com.au/golden

first off, we don't support wma, but we do support mp3 as far as converting .cda goes, it works with both products fine, and it works very easily in fact. with switch just drag and drop the .cda files into the Switch window, set the output to mp3 and hit the convert button with Wavepad just go to File -> Load CD Audio Tracks and load your tracks, then do a file -> save as to save them remember not to take the CD out of the drive, since the software has to read from the CD to extract the audio.

format is less important here, unless you're interested about preserving quality. you could just save to mp3 and choose the lowest settings, thats pretty small. another small one is GSM .wav, but thats designed for voice so don't rely on it for music. every other major format can be made small, just pick the lowest settings available and you'll get a small file.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Courses/42...cts/WaveFormat/ the chunk is all binary data

if you're trying to convert an iTunes aac file you're out of luck, Apple copy protect those files.

the support for CDA was put in to the last version of Switch, my best guess is you took the CD out of the drive after loading the tracks. See KMoth's post for why you can't take the CD out of the drive. Express Rip offers a more flexible solution for converting CD audio to wave/mp3, so we encourage you to try that software first. (http://www.nch.com.au/rip)

it has to decompress it to a PCM wave file, you can't edit compressed audio, its not technically feasible. so yes, the answer to your other question is (I read minds :-)) that there is some quality loss when re-saving as mp3. if you are very fussy then only save to uncompressed PCM wave while working on your file, and when you are ready to master the final production, only *then* should you save to mp3 format.

wavepad is not capable of doing that, we only read from the cd drive, and thats only when loading a cd. if you've never loaded a cd into wavepad before, wavepad hasn't even touched your drive. your problem is something else, see either your PC retailer or cd drive manufacturer.

just to clarify, its not a download process, its a decoder process, we are passing the ASF file onto DirectX to decode it for us (because ASF is a MS format and is therefore handled natively on Windows). your question is a very good one though, do you have any sample asf files for us to look at ? you can send one to us as long as its not more than a few MB in size.

yep its broken, sorry for that, we'll get it fixed for you.

there is no such thing as a "wavepad" file, perhaps you mean that when you double click files they open in wavepad. to stop that happening, in Wavepad go into Options -> General tab and uncheck all the listed file types there.

its a bug unfortunately, we'll get it fixed.

just use Golden Records, it does it for you : http://www.nch.com.au/golden

we dont make you pay to report bugs, in fact if you report bugs (that are reproduceable on our end) we usually give you software for free. we'll take a look at this issue, DirectX is very finicky and can be unstable at times, lets all thank MS for that.

when you go to do a file -> "save as", check the file name of the file (in the "File Name" field) and make sure that you add a ".mp3" file extension in that name. for example, set the filename as "file.mp3" and then hit the save button. from post #7, you said "So I type in mp3 and click on ok. Then I return to the windows with a "format" (lists ACELP.net and CCITT A-Law etc.) and Attributes." that indicates saving to wave and not mp3, the mp3 settings window is completely different to that one.

even though this sort of "feature" is highly sought after by the general public, it is very difficult to solve. even if you did lots of manual tweaking using filters, eq bands, etc. the results would still be dubious at best. if you are ok with that though, two suggested techniques are: - eq filtering to reduce the amplitude outside the (approx.) 200-4000Hz voice spectrum - sampled noise filtering (sample the music as noise and then do a reduction based on that sample)

general playback of dvds and cds are unrelated to installation of our software, and you confirmed that by saying you still had the problem after uninstalling them. something weird is going on with your drives and you should contact either your PC retailer or your drive manufacturer.

its a bug, we'll fix it, but the only currently workaround is to just cancel out of batch mode and drag and drop the file into the wavepad window.

the sample rate for the raw file you specified was probably too high which is why you hear it playing back very fast. load your raw file again and lower the sample rate and keep trying until it plays at normal speed.

do a file -> save as and set the mp3 encoder rate to 320kbps