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August 29, 2024
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Help I am confused

  • August 29, 2024
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My saved wav form was 30.4 minutes, the radio says its 20 minutes what could have happened?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 30, 2024

We have no idea - since you have told us nothing about the circumstances. Or about anything at all, really.

gwen_2051Author
Participant
August 30, 2024
What I told you is what happened. I sent an adobe file to the radio
station. It was 30.4 minutes long, the engineer said it was only 20
minutes. Funny I asked AI the same question and they told me to ask the
engineer I resent it as a link and it was correct! Wow
Pariah Burke
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 30, 2024

I think what Steve meant is that it's often helpful for us to know details like the sampling rate, how you mixed down the WAV, and so on. For example, someone else recently had a similar problem, and the culprit was they were recording at 48 Khz per second but changing the sampling rate during export to 44 Khz per second.

From your follow-up, it sounds like maybe the file got truncated during the transfer. That can happen, especially with email. I do a weekly 2-hour radio show broken into 6 18-minute WAV files. I always deliver it through Dropbox and an emailed link to the folder to avoid some server somewhere corrupting my file attachment.