At the suggestion of an recording engineer I worked with I turned to REAPER to do a batch conversion. I need to turn 48k 24bit wav files into
22k 16bit ogg files while also using WAVES L2 limiter to add gain.
Every time I try to batch convert, REAPER crashes.
Have you tried the conversion without the Waves plugin? It would mean two steps, but you may avoid the crash by performing first the bitrate/depth conversion, then adding the gain.