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To: potlatch
I am certainly not an expert on sound quality. It is very confusing but as I said, I have hundreds of “wav” files under one meg and all my MP3s are triple that.

If the sound quality is low then the WAV will be small. But if you convert that to a constant bit-rate MP3 it will be larger. For example a WAV at 8,000 Hz 8-bit mono is about 470 KB per minute, but convert that to a constant bit-rate 128 Kb/sec MP3 and you're back up to 937 KB per minute. Basically, you just cut the quality more and wasted a lot of space.

94 posted on 06/23/2008 9:38:23 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

OK, I give up, but thanks for the info.

I enjoy what I have and use and that’s all that’s important to me. If I were “20 something” again, I might be more finicky.


97 posted on 06/23/2008 9:55:24 AM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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