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Evidently I need to buy a converter from Pro Tools. I recorded two of the bass lines for our confl songs, they play fine in iTunes, and Quicktime as wav files. I have nothing on the iMac to convert with, so I brought the files to work today. They won't run in Media Player(?, it crashes), and since I no longer have a pc at home, I have nothing to convert it with. Has anyone had this issue with wav files from Pro Tools? Or have an idea what I can do to get them into mp3 so I can upload them soon?

There's lotsa flavors and options with WAV's. Some standard formats are RIF, Broadcast, A/mu Law, ACM, DVI ADPCM, Microsoft ADPCM, Windows PCM. Then you have all the different bit lengths and sampling rates.

If you were running a PC I'd recommend Adobe Audition as it reads & writes virtually everything. I'm sure there's something equivalent in the MAC world as well, although with 12,000 WinTel programs against every one for the MAC, your choices may not be as great.

Also, if you're serious about your tracks, you'll want to stay away from MP3, Ogg and similar formats given that they are compressed, lossy formats.

Also, if your WAV files weren't saved in Broadcast format, i.e. time encoded, you'll have to do some editing to keep them synchronized.

Ideas:
If they play in iTunes, use it to convert them to mp3

I'm guessing when you bounced them to disk you bounced them with the default settings - if you recorded at 24k you'll have 24k wavs and thats the problem. There's a selection when you bounce in there somewhere... Reset it and everything should work fine.

Thanks to both of you! I didn't realize there were different flavors of wav.

The 24k thing is probably an issue as well. I am using mp3 for the files I will upload for others to add to. The whole idea here is to write a few songs for the confl by committee.....

"I am using mp3 for the files I will upload for others to add to."

I'd recommend just sharing the whole pro-tools file/folder if you can. Share with an iDisk or similar...

When you go to "Bounce to Disk" select "Stereo Interleaved" and "16K" and it should fix it. That one hung me up for a while too.

Also, I tried purchasing the $19.99 mp3 converter for ProTools and could never get it to work. Still haven't bothered to investigate a solution, I use Dell Musicmatch Jukebox to convert from wav to mp3.

That was it! I changed to 16k. The stereo interleave was already set (can't remember if I changed it before or not).

Excellent! Glad to hear it. Now you need to convert to mp3 (or not) and upload to yousendit.com and give us links!