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Troublemaker Exports Troubling SOLVED
I noticed that wav files exported to AudioShare show as caf files in AS. I exported a file from TM to Caustic and it doesn't show up. I open that file in AS and it says its a caf file. I convert to wav in AS and it opens fine in Caustic. What is going on here? @brambos we have discussed this before. Anyone else seeing this? Any input @jliljedahl or Rej Poirier?
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I'm currently travelling so I'll have another look when I get home.
But last time I looked there was some weirdness in Apple's AVAudioSession which meant that only a kAudioFileCAFType flag could be used for writing Wave files and the filename (.wav) determines the format CoreAudio chooses for export. (Copy the file to your desktop... you'll see it's a bogstandard Wave file regardless of what Caustic says).
Not sure what's going on. AS says its caf and it just doesn't show up in Caustic. An export from Caustic shows up as a wav file in AS. An export from TM shows as a caf. Here's two exports to AS:
Anyone else seeing this?
@anickt I get the same behavior. When I convert the file imported into AudioShare from Troublemaker from caf to wav (even though it's named a .wav file) I can use open in to load the loop into Caustic with no issues. If I import the original loop into Caustic, nothing shows up in the editor when I go to load it.
Strange
Caustic probably has its own Wav-writing library since it's multiplatform. I prefer staying with Apple's built-in export functionality since it does transparent file format conversions (so it's more future proof). As I said, I'll look into it when I'm back home and file a bug report with CoreAudio if it's still broken.
yep, i've been getting Caf in AS too, if i 'open in' to twistedwave it lists it as wav.. mind you, i've never updated Audioshare since the warning that he had been forced to take the web browser out.. what the hell were Apple drinking, how else are we going to download our free or legitimately purchased Sample Fodder! why you bunch of n.......
Also from other (non-troublemaker) sources? I guess I'm not the only one using Apple's audiofile writing libraries..
@brambos
nope, can't find any other renders in audioshare that come up as Caf! and i have a good few apps and a good few sketch loops rendered like most here..
@brambos importing into AudioCopy produces a file with no wave form too. I can import into Google Drive and Blocs Wave which both play the file with no issues. When I export the file from Google Drive to AudioShare, the file is still a .wav but AudioShare continues to see it as a caf file. Other wav files exported from Google Drive to AudioShare are recognized as wav files without any issue.
Troublemaker also exports directly into ReSlice with no issues at all either.
Strange. Cubasis also imports the files immediately without issues; it even says they're
WAV files..
@brambos I wonder if there is meta data inside the exported files that some apps such as AudioShare use to identify them as caf rather than wav files? Or maybe the apps where it plays correctly also support caf files (plays fine in AudioShare too). Perhaps some apps such as Caustic and AudioCopy expect wav files to not have meta data or to have meta data?
Pastes into MultiTrack DAW and you can hear the imported file when you press play in the Shared sounds tab and the wave forms are displayed when you paste them into a track and produce sound. Works fine for Sparkle, an apeSoft app.
SunVox gives a, "File format not recognized" message.
If you look at the Troublemaker files they do begin with CAFF versus RIFF for wav files created with AudioShare or Caustic.
For those interested in the caf file format, you might find some of this caf information provided by Apple to be interesting even if a lot of it goes over our head or at least mine.
See there was an update to fix the CAF issue, thanks @brambos
Kinda curious what the technical issue turned out to be?
I think Apple fixed the weird bug in their CoreAudio realtime conversion framework libraries between 10.1 and 10.2. What previously resulted in corrupted files when streaming Wave type files to disk (and why I was told to use Caf descriptors instead) now suddenly works.
So yay. Balance in the universe has been restored.
@anickt maybe it's appropriate to amend the thread title to include solved?
Done!