recording wavs

[Tim Wunder]

Really?
I've always been under the impression that there wasn't any real audible 
difference between 8-bit audio and 16-bit. Time for some experimentation...

Tim

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:49 pm, someone claiming to be Matthew 
Carpenter wrote:
> 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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