Axel Berger wrote:

Actually it's 4 GB, but many applications get into trouble at 2 GB
because of thoughtless use of a signed variable for size.

If you take any large multimedia file (larger than 4 gb) and save it as
a multi-segmented RAR file archive, VLC media player will open and play
the archive if you present it with the first file of the archive.

And I regularly reach that limit when converting radio plays into
MP3. A serial concatenated into one file breaks the 2 GB barrier
at a little above 3 h in the intermediate WAV format.

No reason to sample something off the radio in such a high-rez (CD)
format such that you only get 3 hours worth of material in a 2 gb file.

And a radio play that's more than 3 hours long???

If you're combining multiple episodes into a single file - why would you
even want to do that anyways?