Hello Charles.

03 Mar 03 19:37, you wrote to me:

 CA> --8<--cut

 CA>>>>> Any well-written WAV editor that you want to use is good.

 RT>>>> Hmmm ...

 CA>>> Seriously. I wrote single-bit sound apps to save raw sound
 CA>>> data from a DAC and WAV files aren't much different. It's
 CA>>> quite 'raw' in it's format, that's why they are so huge.

 RT>> That I understand, but something I have been wondering
 RT>> about is, is there likely to be a program that loses
 RT>> "quality" while working with and saving to *.wav format.
 RT>> ie. I use CDWAVE to split LP sides into tracks, no sound
 RT>> processing, all things being equal, am I likely to loose
 RT>> quality of sound using different apps to save the same
 RT>> "sound data" or is this something that is not likely to
 RT>> happen.

 CA> Risky to vouch for software when you haven't seen the source
 CA> code. It is conceivable that some WAV editors might attempt to
 CA> tweak the saved file for their own purposes when reloading it?
 CA> I can only say the 'nature' of WAV file editing is to work with
 CA> raw binary coded data and should not alter the code when it is
 CA> loaded and re-saved back to the drive.

 CA> --8<--cut


Now that is pretty much what I think, the wav format is around and should be 
easily implemented from standard libraries, but one never knows if someone 
has decided to "tweak" the format. :-((

Russell

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