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Posted by [RDC]Twitch on Thu Jul 29th at 2:32pm 2010

Does anyone have a link or know of a good program to convert .wav files and other sound files to the proper format for half-life goldsrc? By the way, what is the proper format?



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Posted by tnkqwe on Sat Jul 31st at 9:29am 2010

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Goldscr can play *wav sound files in mono format. In order to change the format, you can use the Sound Recorder (Start> All Programs> Accessories> Entertainment> Sound Recorder). Just open the *wav file you need to convert, then press File> Save As. Then press Change. From there you can change the format and the attributes.


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Posted by Condus Mundus on Mon Aug 2nd at 3:25pm 2010

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Quoting [RDC Twitch

Does anyone have a link or know of a good program to convert .wav files and other sound files to the proper format for half-life goldsrc?

I Highly reccomend Wavepad

If you just get the free version you can cruise with it forever never really needing to buy it (its a free-without-a-few-features-until-you-need-them deal).

As I understand it the correct fromat is

Microsoft PCM-uncompressed (Wavepad will call it this)
8-bit
Mono
22050Hz

If you want specific instructions on how to convert .mp3/.ogg/.mp4 etc to .wav in Wavepad say so, otherwise I'll assume you figured out your own way and leave it at that.

Good luck smiley


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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Aug 3rd at 1:50am 2010

I had a very in depth tutorial on sound editing. I think it was removed because it could have been used for other applications not pertinent to HL.( I would like it reinstated if possible)
Sound editing is relatively easy however. Follow the guys advice above. Sounds good to me.



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Posted by Crono on Tue Aug 3rd at 4:59am 2010

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A good free and open source sound editor is Audacity. It's on Windows and Linux. If you want the end all be all media conversion software, use FFMPEG, also open source on Windows and Linux. I suggest snagging one of its front end distributions like WinFF.

You can convert between almost any known format, be it video or audio. You can also rip audio from video, if you want.

You'd need to alter the file in Audacity to get a proper wav file.

There's plenty of tutorials all over the net on how to use both programs. You have the audio quality requirements, just need to match them when saving the file.


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Posted by [RDC]Twitch on Tue Aug 3rd at 6:33pm 2010

You guys are awesome! Thanks for the info



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Posted by Condus Mundus on Wed Aug 11th at 12:45am 2010

Forget what I said about wavepad. They changed their policy to all-features-for-14-days now. So i tried Audacity, and it is a much better deal. If it doesn't turn into a free-trail thing (although I can't see that happening) I'd have to say go with it for half-life sound editing.

By the way, I found out that you can go up to 16-bit on the format, although it seems to want to rattle my speakers to death that way (may just be my antique speakers though).


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Posted by Crono on Wed Aug 11th at 3:52am 2010

Considering that Audacity is an open source community project, I really doubt it's even logistically possible to turn it into private software. And even if that did happen, there'd be a group to branch off with their own sound editor using the open source code base.


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Posted by haymaker on Wed Aug 11th at 4:46am 2010

For quick and fast editing Ive been using Wavasaur

http://www.wavosaur.com/

Haven't found anything it can't do on an intermediate level, the VST support alone adds thousands of free plugins to your toolkit. Plus it has the added bonus of not needing an install routine to add anything to your registry; just DL it and start working




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