RE: [IRCA] Best Freeware Recording Software for Win 98

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).

Chuck

From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Hawkins
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Best Freeware Recording Software for Win 98

Stephen,

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.

Mike Hawkins

Tracy CA, somewhere deep in the fog

"Stephen H. Ponder" <n5wbi@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Please forgive me if this is OT, but I'm looking for a good freeware
recording program that will run on Windows 98. I'd like to be able to take
my DX recordings currently on cassette tape and convert them into WAV
formats so I can burn them to CD and send along with my reception reports.
I've tried using the "Sound Recorder" application that comes with Win 98,
but the files are too big (MB instead of kB). I found AIPL "Singulator" and
tried it, but, again, MB instead of kB. I've seen WAV files on the web that
are in the 25-50 kB range that sound just fine. Anybody have any
suggestions?

Thanks for your help,

Steve N5WBI
Houston TX USA
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