Shifing timing on each computer

Originally posted by Pony_God Do you think that Vista has an issue with the file not being at 44.1kHz?

I don't think that issues with sample rate are restricted to Vista, but it certainly won't help your situation to have your wave files sampled at another rate.

Originally posted by LightsOnLogan The best settings for a WAV file are 44.1kHz, 16-bit, 2 channels.  When ripping from a CD this will result in a lossless file that doesn't have any aliasing artifacts.

Aliasing.  That was the word that I was trying to remember.  When I was working with 80's and 90's samplers, all kinds of garbage found their way "out of the box" when you tried to resample or combine files with differing sample rates.  Nasty stuff.  Though the worst I remember was in 2001 when a designer had created hours of sound effects files, and she paid no attention to the sample rates!  Most were 44100, but many were 48000, and some were much lower.  The BeOS computer running the software could not make any sense of the varying rates during import, so it just imported silence or garbage.  After about a day of trying to figure out why a new system was taking such a dump, I eventually found the sample rate inconsistencies, resampled the offending files to 44100, and everything imported on the first try.

And it still somehow ended up being my fault.  But that's why I don't do theatre anymore.  The less I have to do with Yale graduates, the better.

I can't update the kHz, I'm stuck at 14

Pony, you said the software was "stuck at 44"    I looked through Audacity and always saw 44100 as the sample frequency. (bottom left of the screen is where I set my output sample rate, then just go to File/Export as WAV. )

I hope you are always going back to the most original file for these conversions. Resampling a file that has already been resampled once or twice will really add a lot of sound artifacts. 

Edited by JonB256 - 03 Oct 2008 at 8:03am

Aurora might not like the floating resolutions (24 bit, 32 bit).  You should stick with 16 bit.

Nope, that didn't help. Vista seems to like my waves less than the mp3 of the same ausio file. Again today, I cannot play a single sequence, and I get the standard can't redraw error.