Session with FLAC Files all Files are Offline...

[Popschutz Studio]

Hi everybody,

I got a PT 12 Session from a collegue from China, and, as the thread title says, all files are offline. I looked in the Audio Files folder, just to find everything is there. But the file format is flac. Is FLAC supported at all?

I´ve been looking in this forum, there are already threads on this topic, but they don´t really answer my question:

Do I have to convert at all? Or is there some magic trick like "save session copy as" where I can just convert the flacs to wav?
PT Reference Guide doesn´t even mention FLAC, so I guess it´s not supported.

Last question: If that´s the case then how did the FLAC files get in there in the first place???

I know it would be clever to go and ask the people who sent the files to me, but unfortunately at the moment it´s not possible to communicate with them directly...

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance,

Arne

[Drew Mazurek]

You got yourself a bonafide mystery!!

[john1192]

Originally Posted by Popschutz Studio

Hi everybody,

I got a PT 12 Session from a collegue from China, and, as the thread title says, all files are offline. I looked in the Audio Files folder, just to find everything is there. But the file format is flac. Is FLAC supported at all?

I´ve been looking in this forum, there are already threads on this topic, but they don´t really answer my question:

Do I have to convert at all? Or is there some magic trick like "save session copy as" where I can just convert the flacs to wav?
PT Reference Guide doesn´t even mention FLAC, so I guess it´s not supported.

Last question: If that´s the case then how did the FLAC files get in there in the first place???

I know it would be clever to go and ask the people who sent the files to me, but unfortunately at the moment it´s not possible to communicate with them directly...

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance,

Arne

you will need to convert them to Wav files .. not sure you will be able to relink them after but i would try converting One File and see what happens ..

Mac or PC ?? can try this cross platform converter .. https://www.movavi.com/support/how-t...ac-to-wav.html

[Popschutz Studio]

Thanks for your help!

I learned that audacity can do some sort of batch processing. So that´s the file format problem sorted out. I will convert them into wav and try to convince PT everything´s back to normal...

will post the results....

cheers, arne

[Drew Mazurek]

What's weird is that this session couldn't have been made with the Flac files, so the correct wav files exist somewhere.

[john1192]

Originally Posted by Popschutz Studio

Thanks for your help!

I learned that audacity can do some sort of batch processing. So that´s the file format problem sorted out. I will convert them into wav and try to convince PT everything´s back to normal...

will post the results....

cheers, arne

the curious thing will be, what happens to any timestamps and i assume unique ID's are gone ..

and as Drew mentioned where are the Wav files that this session started out with ?? and who's bright idea was it to convert to Flac !!

btw: whats the sample rate / bit depth of this session ??

[Popschutz Studio]

The session is in 48kHz and 16 bit. Unfortunately I do not know for whatever reason the files where converted. The time stamps and ids really bother me, to add a little tension half of the tracks have Chinese characters

I can only check this properly on Monday, I’ll let you know bout the outcome....

[john1192]

Originally Posted by Popschutz Studio

The session is in 48kHz and 16 bit. Unfortunately I do not know for whatever reason the files where converted. The time stamps and ids really bother me, to add a little tension half of the tracks have Chinese characters

I can only check this properly on Monday, I’ll let you know bout the outcome....

wow, yes, very interested to hear the ongoing saga !!!

[Popschutz Studio]

Sooo, back from the studio. I managed to relink the files.

Converting with audacity didn’t go as planned, somehow it didn’t want to convert to 24 it, no matter what I tried. I found that this is a limitation of the built in batch processing. Anyways, I followed advice given in this forum and used XLD, which proved to be just perfect.

I learned that the flac conversion in China was done by some mysterious “Assistant “ and that said person also took care of the original wav files. Tsss.

I relinked the files with workspace and about 90 percent relinked automatically via “find candidates”, after I assigned the proper file path.
It was important that I unticked “unique id” so PT just searched for the file name, file type and duration.
I don’t know why, but some of the files (maybe 10%) had to be relinked manually by dragging the matching wave files in the “candidates” area.

Again, thanks for your help. Something learned today.

Cheers, Arne

Edit: BTW, all in all it took me the better part of four hours, so don’t try this at home;0)

[huzzam]

Originally Posted by Popschutz Studio

Sooo, back from the studio. I managed to relink the files.

Converting with audacity didn’t go as planned, somehow it didn’t want to convert to 24 it, no matter what I tried. I found that this is a limitation of the built in batch processing. Anyways, I followed advice given in this forum and used XLD, which proved to be just perfect.

I learned that the flac conversion in China was done by some mysterious “Assistant “ and that said person also took care of the original wav files. Tsss.

I relinked the files with workspace and about 90 percent relinked automatically via “find candidates”, after I assigned the proper file path.
It was important that I unticked “unique id” so PT just searched for the file name, file type and duration.
I don’t know why, but some of the files (maybe 10%) had to be relinked manually by dragging the matching wave files in the “candidates” area.

Again, thanks for your help. Something learned today.

Cheers, Arne

Edit: BTW, all in all it took me the better part of four hours, so don’t try this at home;0)

well at least they saved a few hundred megabytes of bandwidth on their end! </sarcasm>