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Joining WAVs...

Hi,

I have two large WAV files I want to gaplessly join.

Will "copy /b file01.wav+file02.wav new.wav" from the command line create a clean WAV file? Or will be corrupt in the middle?

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Reply #1 –
I don't think that'll work.
Download a free audio editor (such as the one in EAC, the one in Feurio, or Audacity) and use it to do the job.
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Reply #2 –
I'm pretty certain it will be corrupt in the middle because of the header info.

Any audio tool (cox, fb2k, even the sound recorder that came with the OS) will do it for you.

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Reply #3 –
Ya, that copy /b didn't work.

I can't find the join feature in fb2k, EAC won't accept the 48kHz input. And the 700MB wavs are way too big for Sound Recorder to handle (it takes an age anyway).

How can I do this with BeSweet or fb2k?

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Reply #4 –
Try Audacity.
It's Open Source.

It can also downsample your files to 44.1kHz  (what do you need 48kHz for, anyway?)
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Reply #6 –
Sox will do the job nicely. Look at sox.sf.net. It's a great tool, is very easy to use and can handle huge files even on systems with little memory.

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Reply #7 –
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Hi,

I have two large WAV files I want to gaplessly join.

Will "copy /b file01.wav+file02.wav new.wav" from the command line create a clean WAV file? Or will be corrupt in the middle?

Like you found out copy /b copied with the headers.

If you want to join your files that way you'll have to save them both in a RAW format. But since that will require using a sound editor to do that (or a converter) you may be luckier using one to join you files.