dBpowerAMP Music Converter: Wave Compression

 

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Wave files are either uncompressed (known as PCM Wave files), or compressed (using one of the ACM codecs installed into Windows).

dBpowerAMP Wave Compression page

You will be glad to hear dBpowerAMP can create uncompressed (top line selected, as above), or compressed wave files.

Creating Uncompressed PCM Wave Files

A no-brainer is to select everything (Bits, Frequency and Channels) to as Source and they will be saved to the correct type (44100kHz, 16 bit, Stereo if the source is an Audio CD). Although higher bitrates are present (DVD quality 24 bit, 96KHz), if the audio source is not DVD quality (ie an Audio CD), the resulting file will not have any higher quality, it will just be larger than needs be!

Compressed Wave Files

A compressed wave file uses one for the many ACM codecs installed, select Change Format to choose which ACM Codec to use. The most common need for compressed wave files is to create a mp3-wave file, if the Mpeg Layer 3 option is missing from your system it can be added (see www.dbpoweramp.com >> Forum >> dMC FAQ).

Note: It is always preferable to create proper Mp3 files with Mp3 (Lame) rather than a mp3-wave file.

Wave dMC Configuration Options

From dMC Configuration (start >> programs >> dbpoweramp music converter >> configuration) Options reveals additional codec options: 

More than 16 bit or 2 channels: Write WaveFormatEx Header / WaveFormatExtensible Header. A WaveFormatExensible header is an extended wave header that can contain extra channel mapping details, currently sadly very few programs are able to read such a wave file.

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