How To Merge Wav Files together

[chobo2]

I want to merge 2 wav files together to make one file but I can't find a program to do it. Like I find some program but when I join the 2 files together I them and I look at their size they are over 700mb in size and they should be 16mb together when joined.

Can Adobe Audition is able to join them together?

or is there a good program that can do it.

I just don't know why these program make them so big.

[daamon]

Any half-decent audio editing tool, including Adobe Audition for sure, will do the job.

Describe the steps you're taking that results in 700Mb files.

[redwudz]

I don't know why they would be so big either. I normally use the freeware Audacity to join WAV files, but Audition should work as well.

[jimmalenko]

I'm thinking that the "WAV" files might actually be compressed audio such as MP3, but just saved with a .WAV extension. How were these WAVs created ?

[hech54]

Even the built in Windows Soundrecorder can join .wav files.
sndrec32.exe

[chobo2]

Ok these files are recorded files of lectures recorded by a mp3 player.

file1 : 6.84mb 29mins
file2 : 9.34mb 40mins

I know these are very very small for wav's but thats what they where recorded at so I don't see why a joiner program should make them bigger they should touch nothing of the conversion it should just join these 2 files together.

So if adobe audition can do this can you tell me step by step how to do it. Since when I was doing editing to these files it never changed the file size when I changed it.

[hech54]

Ok these files are recorded files of lectures recorded by a mp3 player.

file1 : 6.84mb 29mins
file2 : 9.34mb 40mins

I know these are very very small for wav's but thats what they where recorded at so I don't see why a joiner program should make them bigger they should touch nothing of the conversion it should just join these 2 files together.

So if adobe audition can do this can you tell me step by step how to do it. Since when I was doing editing to these files it never changed the file size when I changed it.

Those have to be MP3 files....not .wav files.
A 40 minute .wav file would be about 400MB.
Even the lowest setting of 8kbps 8bit mono .wav @40 minutes would
probably be bigger than 10MB.

[MistaED]

Addawav is a simple program that will do that for you.

[chobo2]

Ok these files are recorded files of lectures recorded by a mp3 player.

file1 : 6.84mb 29mins
file2 : 9.34mb 40mins

I know these are very very small for wav's but thats what they where recorded at so I don't see why a joiner program should make them bigger they should touch nothing of the conversion it should just join these 2 files together.

So if adobe audition can do this can you tell me step by step how to do it. Since when I was doing editing to these files it never changed the file size when I changed it.

Those have to be MP3 files....not .wav files.
A 40 minute .wav file would be about 400MB.
Even the lowest setting of 8kbps 8bit mono .wav @40 minutes would
probably be bigger than 10MB.

Well I am just going on what windows tells me:

[MOVIEGEEK]

To check properties:right-click on file and go to Properties->Summary->Advanced:



Also go to Explore->Tools->Folder Options and untick "Hide extensions...." :



BTW.. Audacity is what I would use to combine.

[hech54]

Well I am just going on what windows tells me:

Wave "sound" doesn't look right...the properties of a .wav file
in Windows says exactly that....".wav file"....not Wave Sound.

[Sifaga]

do you really need to join them together,

you could just burn them and change the pause inbetween the tracks to zero, NERO can do this

[daphy]

Hiho,

there is an 'open and add' function in the 'file' menu (or something simular like that -> I don´t use the english version of Audition aka Cooledit)
this works also with diffrent typs of sound files -> even MP3 or ACM-WAVs
hint: always chose the second track first! you will see why
if you want a gap between the tracks simply add 2-3 sec of silence.
If you ran for an audio disc simply burn the project with audition, use the track marker as CD track, that´s it!

bye Daphy

BTW: if you need some free import export plugins for Audition visit needfulthings :P

[DarrellS]

Well I am just going on what windows tells me:

And if you changed the file extension to .MP3 then Windows would tell you it was an mp3 file.
I would take MOVIEGEEK's advice and show hidden files and folders. It also helps your antivirus program if it can see the file extensions.

Goldwave will do what you want but it's not free. Audacity is a good free audio program. If you open the files in any editing program, it will tell you if it's a signed WAVE file or a System file if it's a mp3 with the wrong extension.

Ok these files are recorded files of lectures recorded by a mp3 player.

Ah, you answered the question already. Not sure how they got named .wav file cause they're definately MP3 files. The file size is the obvious give away though. Like everyone else stated, Wave files are huge. MP3 files are small. An 80 minute CD recorded as 128kb/s MP3 would be around 50 or 60MB, recorded as uncompressed wave, 700MB.

I know these are very very small for wav's but

16 MB is very, very, very small for a 70 minute MP3 file.

[hech54]

It's not a .wav file....it is a Wave Sound.
I've seen that crap before in an old Packard Hell computer I had YEARS ago.

[RabidDog]

There is even a way to do this in "DOS" something like file1 + file2 = file3..
"It also helps your antivirus program if it can see the file extensions."
Ho-hum .. the setting is for Hewmans only...

[coltonlolz]

It works too...

[jagabo]

WAV files can contain compressed audio, mp3 or otherwise.

Regardless of whether they are MP3 files or not, given the size and running time, they must contain compressed audio at around 32 kbps. After joining them in an editor you need to compress them again if you want a similar file size.

Yes, you can append them with the copy command in a CLI:

copy /b file1.mp3+file2.mp3 newfile.mp3

but some players will not play the joined files properly. The player may play on the first file. Or may play both but only show the running time of the first.

[El Heggunte]

jagabo, please look at the date of post #16 ^_^

[jagabo]

jagabo, please look at the date of post #16 ^_^

I watch posts under the Latest Active Forum Threads section of the videohelp home page so I often don't notice if someone drags up an old thread.