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Title: AIF Support ? Post by: ldolse on February 05, 2009, 04:36:32 am Hi,
AIFF files use more than one extension. I have several thousand AIFF files with the extension .AIF, not .AIFF, which is what XXhighend is set to at the moment. Selecting the 'all files' filter while loading doesn't help either. It lets me select the files, but then it seems to assume they're wav files and throws up an error that it's not a correct wav format. If I rename the file to .aiff it plays fine, so it's pretty clear it's a problem with the extension and format header handling. Title: AIF Support ? Post by: PeterSt on February 05, 2009, 06:47:03 am Ok, clear. But if I may ask, what holds you from renaming your files ? Can you then not use them elsewhere anymore maybe ?
Point is, each extension is one to explicitly deal with. By itself this is not a problem (it would take me an hour maybe), but it takes time at searching; If you'd have 10,000 albums, and it would take 10 seconds to search in them, an additional extension will make 12.5 seconds of that. If that extension is unnecessary, well ... Anyway, don't start renaming all of your AIFFs. I might just as well make AIF of it. Or combine them somehow. Ok ? Peter Title: AIF Support ? Post by: ldolse on February 05, 2009, 07:16:00 am If they were all in a single directory I would have gone ahead and done that, but they're nested across hundreds of directories, so writing a recursive batch rename isn't something I'm really in the mood to do, and I figured I won't be the last person to run across this, though I appear to be the first...
Title: AIF Support ? Post by: PeterSt on February 05, 2009, 08:29:31 am Hmm ... XX could do that renaming for you, since it just contains there recursive walkthroughs.
But after some thinking, it is quite allright to support both AIF and AIFF, and the search can be combined into one (*.AIF*). I will do it. It will be in the next version. Note that if you at this moment want to try, you should use dragging onto the Playlist or use the Library button. Coincidentally yesterday I found a bug that won't allow AIFFs to get into the Playlist by the other means (like Load, Random functions and more). Thanks, Peter Title: AIF Support ? Post by: ldolse on February 05, 2009, 08:38:53 am I believe I tried the equivalent of that when I changed the filter to '* All Files'. In that case it thought the AIF file was a WAV and wouldn't play it.
Title: AIF Support ? Post by: PeterSt on February 05, 2009, 08:46:43 am FYI : In the end everything must be played as "wav" (or PCM if you want). There's no other way on a Windows PC (that I now of). But what happens is that the conversion to WAV doesn't take place because the extension isn't explicitly recognized. And with any conversion, obviously the from-to combination must be known. In this case the "from" is not.
In the end I think the "all files" really shouldn't be there. I did that merely for some convenience (see the context your music files are in etc.). Title: AIF Support ? Post by: PeterSt on February 05, 2009, 07:27:57 pm Well, if you want, you can try it with the below zip. This is XXHighEnd.exe only; just copy it over the current 09.x-1 install (not over an older one !).
Please let me know. Peter Title: Re: AIF Support ? Post by: PeterSt on February 06, 2009, 07:30:07 am Note : Something went wrong with this topic and it got merged with another one. So Idolse, don't think I just removed it. I now reinstalled it.
Please see my previous post. Title: Re: AIF Support ? Post by: ldolse on February 06, 2009, 10:47:06 am Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Title: Re: AIF Support ? Post by: ldolse on February 06, 2009, 06:52:42 pm Looks like it works, Thanks!
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