evanbowman/BPCore-Engine

Music .raw file

tchaly-bethmaure opened this issue · 1 comments

Hi !

How can I edit .raw files, I have searched many times for a software to make my music files but can't find one with is 16khz 8bit Mono PCM and which give a .raw file.

Can you help me @evanbowman ?

Regards,
Tchaly

Hi!

I use the popular free program Audacity to export raw files.

When opening a track in Audacity, a stereo track may be converted to mono by selecting the tracks dropdown, and then selecting "mix stereo down to mono" in the list of mix options.

tracks_mixmenu

In the bottom left corner, you may select the output bitrate, you should use 16000.
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Finally, to export PCM audio, select File->Export->Export Audio.
You should now see a file browser. For the header option, select Raw (header-less). For the encoding, select Signed 8-bit PCM.

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8-bit signed PCM is an uncommon format nowadays, but it's what the GBA sound chip uses.