recording wavs

[Matthew Carpenter]

11 bit is used for a lot of voice.  16 bit is the accepted standard for music... some stereophiles love 24bit, and 32bit just seems a little like overkill.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:12:07 +0100
"Squabsy" <squabsy at lycos.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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