On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:04:40 +0100 Joe Button <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there. > > I have a Boss BR-532 digital multitrack, which saves my songs onto SmartMedia > cards. I can then get these files onto my PC using a USB card reader. So far > so good. > > Two questions: > > 1) Probably a long shot, but does anyone have any clue as to how I might > convert the files from the BR-532's internal format to WAV or whatever? I can > do this using a Windows GUI program supplied by Boss (runs fine under wine), > but the interface is rather fiddly and limited. Any chance I might be able to > do this eg. with some kind of command line / scriptable tool? Cursory > Googling hasn't revealed a lot about the file formats to me - they're > described as 'MT2', 'LV1', and 'LV2' (in decreasing order of sound quality). > I usually use LV2 (for that much sought after lo-fi sound...). I'm the author of libsndfile. If you can make available a small example file (100kbytes or less) I'll be willing to have a look. It might also be useful to suply the same file decoded to WAV just for comparison. The best way to make these files available is to put them on a web or ftp server and send me a link. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
