When I drag and copy a wav file into media bay it copies it as something called a .riff file. Never heard of this before. When I try and play the file back in media bay it plays fine. When I try and play from the finder it doesn’t open or play back.
Why has it converted it to this file? What is this file? How do I get it to just copy it as the original wav?
Mac osx big sur 16 core pro
Bump. Any idea why mediabay converts wav files into whatever a riff file is?
AFAIK, .riff files are the Mac versions of .wav ones. So, I guess that, as you are using OSX, there is a kind of automatic conversion occuring.
Maybe there is an OSX setting to prevent it, I don’t know - Windows user, here…
The Mac versions of wav files are aiff, not riff.
What does that have to do with my issue. 
Yep, sorry… I mixed up the two. 
But basically, .riff files (as well as .aiff ones) are compatible with .wav as both share the common IFF (Interchange File Format) structure defined 30 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIFF
After this, I indeed wonder why there is such an automatic conversion in luke7020 case…
Hi cubic sorry I was referring to the other poster.
It is indeed very strange. In years of using a Mac I have never even come across this file. And now mediabay is converting waves to this by itself. I couldn’t find any preferences that change this.
Having a Windows based setup, I’m afraid that I can’t be more of help, sadly : all the audio files I have listed in MediaBay are .wav ones.
And, as you, I see nothing related to an eventual automatic conversion in the Preferences… 
No worries thanks for the reply. It’s really bizarre though right. I’ve used cubase for years and years and never encountered this issue.