Esperado Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 is it normal to have an exported wav file that is 50mb, for a 2:50 song? seems far bigger than it needs to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederic Petitpas Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Yup. Check your sample rate. and bit depth. Recording at 44.1kHz/24-bit makes good sense, but then you (can) dither to 16 bit when exporting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skrypnyk Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 is it normal to have an exported wav file that is 50mb, for a 2:50 song? yup. + 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanthos Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 is it normal to have an exported wav file that is 50mb, for a 2:50 song? seems far bigger than it needs to be. WAVs are uncompressed files, so yes, it will be much bigger than a corresponding MP3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 A wav will typically be about ten times the size of a decent mp3 of same length, so yeah, it's bigger, and bigger still if it's 24 bit or a higher sample rate. In your case, I'd guess you're dealing with a 24 bit wav, which is a little excessive. Bring it down to 16 bit and you should have a more manageable size, tho it'll still be around 10*mp3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timaeus222 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I've never reached 50 MB for a 2:50 song. I have a 3:05 song that's 31MB as a WAV and 5MB as a VBR1 MP3. Yeah, it's probably just the sample rate that's making it that large. Check the export settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esperado Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 yea, it was at 44.1khz. I just ended up converting to mp3, since I don't really care about quality, with it just being a wip update. what is dithering ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 what is dithering ? Touching children there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moseph Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 what is dithering ? Adding tiny amounts of noise to mask the audio errors that occur when you convert something to a lower bit depth. There should be an option in your DAW that lets you set whether dithering occurs when you export to a wave file/mp3. It's probably turned on by default, and you should leave it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esperado Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Touching children there. is that sort of like, taking a gunther? thanks! i think its actually turned off in ableton, so ill turn it on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederic Petitpas Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 I've never reached 50 MB for a 2:50 song. I have a 3:05 song that's 31MB as a WAV and 5MB as a VBR1 MP3. Yeah, it's probably just the sample rate that's making it that large. Check the export settings. Did a test and got 514 MB for a 2minute51 tune saved as a 64bit float/192kHz wav. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Williamson Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 is it normal to have an exported wav file that is 50mb, for a 2:50 song? seems far bigger than it needs to be. Yup. If that's a WAV file that is rather normal. WAV files are far higher quality than an MP3 or M4A so it just naturally takes up more space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timaeus222 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Did a test and got 514 MB for a 2minute51 tune saved as a 64bit float/192kHz wav. lmao, but that's 64-bit float. I use 16-bit dither. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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