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Originally Posted by alanofoz
The Cool Edit 32 bit format is not a proprietary format at all, it's quite common. In fact Reaper can read these files and render to this format.
(Actually, just remembered the older versions of CE used a slightly different format. Not sure if there are any circumstances where it makes much difference though.)
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OK that's cool. I've had a lot of programs that could not open the 32-bit 16.8 float format. It's certainaly a bit more rare.
Most programs seem to prefer 32-bit 0.24 Normalised float format. I think the other format at least used to be proprietary. So I use the 32-bit 0.24 Normalised float whenever I don't want to risk incompatibility.
There is of course, also the regular 32-bit integer format which is very common and compatible. And I suppose it's worth mentioning that Cool Edit 2000's 24-bit integer format might be slightly different than other programs' 24-bit integer format. 24-bit integer can be packed or non-packed. I forget which is which, but programs such as Goldwave and CDwav.exe do differentiate.
I also forgot to mention that Cool Edit 2000 displays (at the bottom of the screen) the bit resolution and sample rate of the currently opened file.
Be warned that it says 32-bit even if it's 24-bit or 32-bit float. That's just a limitation of how Cool Edit 2000 works. This also applies to the sample rate conversion command window. I think the choices are 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit. But actually the 32-bit one is the proprietary Cool Edit format (16.8 float). So you have to use "Save As..." to get to the other formats, like I explained before above.