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  Simple Question about Sampling Rates

  Posted by Matthew Abourezk on June 21, 2008 at 4:14 pm

  Hi all,

  Does converting a song from 44.1Khz to 48 Khz physically change the length of a song?

  Thanks,
  matt

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  http://www.talkingboxdmg.com
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  Will Salley replied 17 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Greg Fatianow

  June 21, 2008 at 6:07 pm

  Hi Matt,

  No, converting your song from 44.1 to 48 khz will “not” change the length of your song. If it was originally recorded at 48 khz however, it will give you a slight increase in sound fidelity.
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  Will Salley

  June 22, 2008 at 11:55 pm

  If you have hardware in which the sampling rate can be manually changed (Pro Tools) it is possible to have a playback “speed” slower or faster. Say you recorded an audio file at 48khz, bounced it to a file with a setting of 44.1, then imported it back to the original project (which would still have hardware clocked at 48khz), it would playback faster – and thus – shorter.

  Most hardware devices will automatically detect the sampling rate and set the playback rate accordingly.

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