I've recorded a megahuge file--now what?

[kenmayer]

I recorded over an hour of a jam as an aiff file. The file is 950MB and I can't do a thing with it. My Rockbox iAudio would crash until I deleted it from its drive.

Now I have it on my PC desktop and my Mac desktop. My PC crashes if I try to rename, move, look at it, or delete it. My Mac crashes whenever I try to open the file in any program.

Is there any way to break the file up into 30MB chunks? All of the programs I've seen can break it up but do not create independent files, only ones that need to be rejoined back into the original file.

Help!
Thanks,
Ken

[TaperChuck]

950 MB is not a big file. There must be something else that is causing the crashes.

I recorded over an hour of a jam as an aiff file. The file is 950MB and I can't do a thing with it. My Rockbox iAudio would crash until I deleted it from its drive.

Now I have it on my PC desktop and my Mac desktop. My PC crashes if I try to rename, move, look at it, or delete it. My Mac crashes whenever I try to open the file in any program.

Is there any way to break the file up into 30MB chunks? All of the programs I've seen can break it up but do not create independent files, only ones that need to be rejoined back into the original file.

Help!
Thanks,
Ken

[petur]

indeed, I've recorded sessions of over 1GB several times without a problem.

Try to import it as raw in your audio application. Or try some other application. Also try to find out what is wrong with the file (bad header,...?) Or if you can zip and put online somewhere (I know, it's a big file)