Ah Ha!
It appears that the underlying difficulty is that wav file sizes, like Android and FAT32 drives, cannot exceed 4GB. Even though Audacity can assemble <4GB wavs into a single track of virtually unlimited length - and it falsely appears to be able to export a file of the apparently correct size with the .wav extension - the file will not subsequently correctly import to the correct length; it is crippled.
A solution is to export the assembled track(s) as a .flac. FLAC files are compressed but nevertheless lossless and don't appear to have any practical length limit. They are also surprisingly smaller - in my short experience with them, anyway. The 2GB, 2GB, 2GB and 1.3GB files I assembled in the previous message export from Audacity as a faulty 7.3GB wav file; they exported as a 3.4GB flac, though, that was both bit-accurate and much faster loading.
So, I am now looking for a desktop tool that will import a series of <4GB wavs and write a flac of those assembled wavs.
It appears that the underlying difficulty is that wav file sizes, like Android and FAT32 drives, cannot exceed 4GB. Even though Audacity can assemble <4GB wavs into a single track of virtually unlimited length - and it falsely appears to be able to export a file of the apparently correct size with the .wav extension - the file will not subsequently correctly import to the correct length; it is crippled.
A solution is to export the assembled track(s) as a .flac. FLAC files are compressed but nevertheless lossless and don't appear to have any practical length limit. They are also surprisingly smaller - in my short experience with them, anyway. The 2GB, 2GB, 2GB and 1.3GB files I assembled in the previous message export from Audacity as a faulty 7.3GB wav file; they exported as a 3.4GB flac, though, that was both bit-accurate and much faster loading.
So, I am now looking for a desktop tool that will import a series of <4GB wavs and write a flac of those assembled wavs.
Tom
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