recording wavs

[Squabsy]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:25:38 -0400, "Tim Wunder" <tim at thewunders.org>
said:

> FWIW, 20 minutes of 44.1KHz 8-bit stereo recorded from vinyl takes up
> about 
> 200 MB of space on my ext3 filesystem. RHL 8.0 on an 1GHz Duron with
> 384MB 
> RAM.
> 
> And yes, that /windows/C drive looks mighty full.
> 
> I don't believe the problem lies with the K6 processor, although it's
> been a 
> while since I recorded audio from the line in on a K6...bit rate might be
> a 
> reasonable culprit, but *something* is amiss here. The plot thickens,
> indeed.
> 
> Could it be a soundcard module problem?


Thank you all for your patience and advice.

The c:\ drive is very full mostly due to my children installing The SIMS
in all its expansion pack glory.

The D:\ drive is shared between Windows & Linux for files it also had a
complete copy of my c:\drive on it which I created before building my
Linux partition in cases anything went wrong. I deleted that after my
mail last night.

I have tried writing the wav's to both d:\ and to my Linux partition and
there are 2 or 3 1.gb Wavs still on these drives.

Your estimate of space ties up with my expectations based on the same
sort of operation in Windows.
I notice that you state 8 bit I may well have mine set at 16 or even
32bit (can't check till this evening) 
Is 8 bit adequate ?
Could using a higher bit rate be causing my problems ?

How could I establish if my soundcard is the problem ?


Could I just also say that this is the first question I have asked on
this list (or any Linux list for that matter) and I was worried about
being flamed for asking a "newbie" question having heard that some Linux
lists don't suffer fools gladly.
But in contrast to my fears you have all been extremely patient and
helpful 
Thank you and if it's Ok I will keep you appraised of my progress.
 
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