Hi!
I have recorded my band using Zoom R-16 recorders but when I try to import the wav files (16 bit, 44100 Hz) into Ardour (v.5, on Ubuntu Studio), Ardour tells me already when I highlight one of the files that it cant use that file.
I really don’t understand what is happening here, as I am pretty certain that Ardour should be able to handle these files? Each one is is about 588 MB, but that shouldn’t be an issue either, I think? Audacity on the same computer can read and play back each file.
Any ideas about what went wrong here is appreciated, thanks
Ardour does not directly read file, it uses libsndfile for that. There are known issues for files created by the Zoom R-24 and R-8:
Can you try sndfile-info /path/to/the_file_from_the_zoom.wav ? That can indicate if libsndilfe is indeed the issue.
It’s likely only Ubuntu’s version that has this issue.
You could also use the Ardour-binary from http://ardour.org/download. That should not affected by this issue.
Yes. It is a problem with libsndfile version 1.028. Version 1.027 is fine.
You can download Ardour from the ardour site, the binary there has the correct library built-in.
Or maybe you can downgrade your library to 1.027.
Or you can fix your libsndfile library (that’s what I did, but I’m on Fedora). If you want to rebuild your library I can give you the (very trivial) patch.
