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Audition Windows PCM .wav file -- NEED SOME HELP!!

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BigVoiceGuy

For some reason my Audtion is saving these files down as an .mp3. It has done this before and I can't remember what I did to correct the setting. Anyone have any idea of what I have done or what has gone wrong with my system? The "Save as type: " looks like this: Windows PCM (*.mp3;*.wav) The .mp3 shouldn't be there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Open a new session, select "Save Session As", name the session, choose .wav from the drop down menu and hit OK.
 
Open an existing WAV file and re-save. Just don't add the extension on your file name ("Testfile" not "Testfile.wav"). Audition will create it with the proper extension when you choose the file type. I fumble around from time to time and save an mp3 with a WAV extension. Did it just today.
 
Actually, the reverse is true. You want to save as a wav, right? Save it as "testfile.wav"....DO put the extension you want and it will overwrite the incorrect one.

Emmett
 
Emmett said:
Actually, the reverse is true. You want to save as a wav, right? Save it as "testfile.wav"....DO put the extension you want and it will overwrite the incorrect one.

Emmett
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OK, now maybe I'm misunderstanding this: aren't his files .mp3? If he appends them as .wav, won't they still be .mp3s?
 
If he appends them as .wav, won't they still be .mp3s?
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That's why you don't add the extension when saving new files. When one chooses the file type the extension is automatically created.. If you do add the extension add the extension to your filename and it's the wrong one for the filetype, wav for an mp3 as an example, you end up with an mp3 file with a wav extension, or a wav file with an mp3 extension, if you did it the other way 'round. Thereafter when you save a file it will have the dual extensions in the file type window which is where we were when we started.
 
Duncan Park said:
when you save a file it will have the dual extensions in the file type window which is where we were when we started.
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Gotcha.
 
Exactly. And the OP is trying to save a PCM WAV file, but it's showing up with .mp3 as the extension. Therefore, to correct the issue, a PCM WAV file from the dropdown menu needs to be saved by manually typing in the .wav extension (i.e. "testfile.wav"). That will reset the extension to .wav. Without doing this, .mp3 will continue to show up as an extension for PCM WAV in the dropdown menu.

Emmett
 
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