[IRCA] RE: [ABDX] - Freeware Recording Software for Win 98

["Stephen H. Ponder" <n5wbi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your suggestions on recording audio clips!!

Here is a summary of the suggestions I received:

1st Response
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>
> I think you may be mistaken on what you think are WAV
> files that are that small.  If you look at a CD in
> terms of megabytes per minute, a 700 MB CD is 80 minutes.
> That means that one minute of audio would be about 8.75
> MB.  A MP3 file, which is usually what you will find on
> the web, would be significantly less, usually about 10%
> of that size, the actual size being a function of the
> bitrate of the MP3.  SHN files, which are uncommon, are
> usually about 40% the size of a WAV file, but provide
> lossless audio (i.e. no compression at all).
>
> I haven't used Sound Recorder, but I picked up a copy of
> Cakewalk Pyro at Staples so that I could make some MP3
> files of songs from record albums that I own which may
> never get released on CD.  It was cheap ($35-40), took
> a little bit of head-banging to fully understand it,
> and worked great once I got my own expectations of how
> it should work out of the way.  It also does WAV files
> and several other formats too.
>

2nd Response
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>
> If you?re going to send a CD, why worry about the file
> size??  If you really want to change the file size, in
> Sound Recorder you can go to File-Properties and then
> in the Format Conversion window, select ?Recording Format?
> then click on ?Convert Now?. Next, select PCM if you want
> a WAV file or MP3 (I don?t know if all Windows versions
> ship with an MP3 encoder. If not, there are plenty offree
> ones on the web.) The next choices will be # of samples
> per second and # of bits. You might try a rock bottom 8
> KHz, 8 bit mono format and see if you are happy with that.
> If not, creep up 11,025 Hz (if you want more highs) or 16
> bits (if you think it sounds too distorted).
>

3rd Response
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>
> Just in case, I figured I'd throw in my .02.  I don't know
> of any decent freeware, but there is a shareware program
> called CD Wave.  It works great, but its native format is
> .wav, which creates large files.  After the files have been
> captured, you can convert to mp3 right in the program, split
> the file into smaller clips, name them, etc.  I use it very
> successfully to turn my old LPs into mp3 CD's.
>
> Many DXers use Total Recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/,
> which is very inexpensive.  I'm about to go ahead & buy that
> one for recording my DX.  It sounds like an excellent package.
>

Again, thanks!!

73 and GOOD DX!!

Steve N5WBI
Houston TX USA (where it's supposed to start snowing tonight!!)
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