Mark
Can't you burn it to a DVDr? 4.7Gb single sided, plenty of room.. Cheap to

Nero should do it
No - sorrry, that's not what I want to do.

Lee - as above - not what I want to do.
Quote Originally Posted by webby View Post
What do you want to do with it?

You've got FLAC files that you want to convert to ALAC? Is that it?
The files are large, so I want to split them into convenient units. I want an editor or splitter which will cope with large FLAC (or ALAC - since I can convert to that format if needed) files.

I've just been looking again at Audacity, and tried using the 1.3 Beta and ffmpeg tool (Mac OS version), but it didn't look hopeful. Either it wasn't working, or was going to take most of the day just to load up.

A few things occur to me.

One, which might work if I can find the right tools. Are there general file splitting tools which can split any file? I'm sure there are.
Then obviously the end (and perhaps also the beginning) of a file created that way may not be in "good" FLAC or ALAC format, but despite that it may then be possible to edit the files using some editors. Depends how robust or picky such editor tools are about beginning and ends of data files.

Another option, since I'm using a Mac, is simply to go back to WAV, and then edit from there. The files might be very large, but I think the Mac file system should cope. It might be a bit slow, but I've seen xACT convert some of these files to WAV as an intermediate process, and that didn't take too long. Some/many Windows systems would not do this, because of constraints on file sizes.

I'm not sure how good Audacity is for large files. Although my experience of Audacity is that in many ways it is excellent, it normally generates a massive number of modest (typically 1 Mbyte) temporary/project files, and this can slow some operations down very considerably. It works very well for audio files less than one hour or so.