batch joining multiple wav files....

[housepig]

okay, this is starting to drive me batty...

I'm working on a project where I'm going to have 1,800 separate wav files per minute of material.

they will all be in a directory, sequentially numbered. what I need to do is stitch them together, one after another, in numeric order.

obviously, I'd like to do this without opening a few thousand files and inserting the wavs one after the other.

does anyone know of a way to do this, preferebly with shareware or freeware, or in Wavelab 4, CoolEdit Pro or SoundForge 4.5? I've checked the help files, and I'm coming up empty, and most batch processing info I can find on the web is geared to batch processing wav -> mp3.

any info appreciated.

[bugster]

you can join any two files together with "copy file1+file2 file3".

Use the /b switch with wav files as they are binary.

I can't recall the exact syntax right now, but if your filenames are numerical as you say a simple loop counter would allow you to finally achieve this.

The problem then is the file has multiple headers. Goldwave should open this and 'save as' would get you a valid wav file.

[dphirschler]

A program called "addawav" will join multiple wavs. Not sure if it is in the tools section though. Do a Google search for it.


Darryl

[housepig]

Darryl -

thanks for the tip - I had seen that app, and misread that it was mixing wavs at the same time (eg. voiceover in one wav, background music in another, join them and get voiceover and background mixed) but that's another program of his.

I just downloaded and did a quick experiment, works like a charm - freeware, small, low overhead, and pretty fast..

HERE'S A LINK in case anyone has a similar problem...

@bugster -

I'm woefully inept at the command line, but trying to get better - if you remember the syntax to cycle through a directory full of files, it would help me out with some other needs..

thanks again, guys.