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Audio format
What is the audio format that has the smallest file size? I'd like to burn
these to CD and also have them on my hard drive. |
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mp3 is significantly smaller than wav format and will probably meet
your needs well. "George M" wrote: What is the audio format that has the smallest file size? I'd like to burn these to CD and also have them on my hard drive. |
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:00:53 -0400, "George M"
wrote: What is the audio format that has the smallest file size? I'd like to burn these to CD and also have them on my hard drive. MP3 will go just about as small as you like - but the quality gets progressively more lousy as size decreases! Note that an audio CD - playable in a hi-fi player - is always 44.1KHz wav quality. You can't cram more time onto this kind of disk. |
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Laurence Payne wrote in
: Note that an audio CD - playable in a hi-fi player - is always 44.1KHz wav quality. You can't cram more time onto this kind of disk. You can if you push really really hard :P j/k |
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 06:37:04 -0000, Theo wrote:
Note that an audio CD - playable in a hi-fi player - is always 44.1KHz wav quality. You can't cram more time onto this kind of disk. You can if you push really really hard :P You can overburn and pack a few more Kb onto the disk. But you can't do anything about the seconds-of-music per Kb ratio. |
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"George M" wrote in message ... What is the audio format that has the smallest file size? I'd like to burn these to CD and also have them on my hard drive. With 73 year old ears, 64kb/s is adequate, and it will allow you to record 2 minutes/megabyte. That's about 34 hours/gigabyte. I have 41GB worth of such files, covering my entire CD collection on my 80GB hard drive. With younger ears I'd recommend 128kb/s, which would take up twice the space, but would sound better on orchestral music. Norm Strong |
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