Q- I'm using Bias Peak 1.12 to transfer recordings digitally from DAT to hard drive (going through AudioMedia III card on a Powercenter 120 -- a Power
>Mac clone...) The program consistently is misreading/truncating the data once it's written to disc. The file may take up 650 megabytes of hard-drive space, but when I open it in Peak, it shows up as a 10-minute or so file (and if I try to save, it'll be saved as 117 megs, or whatever)...
If I play the sound file through some common Mac application, like SoundApp, it shows up/plays as the entire 65 minute file.
I've defragmented hard drive, rebuilt desktop, zapped pram, trashed and reinstalled DAE init and digidesign driver (1.4.1) -- all to no avail...




ANSWER = BUG!!!
BIAS is almost finished researching your problem... it looks like we may have uncovered a bug in the Mac OS. We write the AIFF header information regarding number of samples (length of file) after the recording is finished by looking at the file size reported by the Mac OS File Manager... which is reporting a **bogus** number when you record a huge (150MB+) audio
file direct to disk. Perhaps the Mac OS does not update the file length internally as it should when it has to deal with very large files.
We are trying an alternate method and hope to have a fix out ASAP.

If you are now asking... "Well then how come SoundApp or xxx opens it correctly?" My educated guess is that these apps calculate the length of the audio file based on the length of the file rather than the length stored in the AIFF header information.