I have to assume that the answer to John's repeated question is that you do not have the audiophile version, or you would have said so by now.

That means, sometime ago, you ran the utility from within BIAB to uncompress your WMA files into WAV files. Doing so, however, made no difference in the sound. At one time years ago, doing this improved the speed of regeneration a bit (never more than, say, 20%) but now less so. Thus, you would gain almost nothing from working with WAV files on your new machine with a smaller hard drive. Find the original WMA files from your original PG Music drive and use those.

Since you mention a space problem, there are things you can do. I do not load all the RealTracks onto my internal drive, because it's an SSD of limited size, much like the tablet you will be getting. Instead, I manually copy only those RealTrack folders I know I need. If I ever need other RealTracks, I know I can go back to the original drive and find them. One other thing: you must copy all the .ST2 and .XT2 files in the main /BB folder, since you can't identify which go with which RealTracks.

Or, just run BIAB from the external drive after doing the minimum setup option.


BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.