best sound format and app. for recording voice.

I am in school and I tape my classes. what I would like to do is to begin to keep digital copies of the taped classes on my computer without taking up so much disk space. what I will do is have the output jack of the tape recorder connected to the input jack of my sound card. I need to know the best sound format and a good (maybe free but I am open to buying a good app) application that will allow me to make digital samples with mono recording and at least radio quality that will not take up a lot of space for a taped class of about an hour.

I would prefer the application run on linux but I am open to a good M$ windows based sound application (please forgive me but I am desperate :)

I am in school and I tape my classes. what I would like to do is to begin to keep digital copies of the taped classes on my computer without taking up so much disk space. what I will do is have the output jack of the tape recorder connected to the input jack of my sound card. I need to know the best sound format and a good (maybe free but I am open to buying a good app) application that will allow me to make digital samples with mono recording and at least radio quality that will not take up a lot of space for a taped class of about an hour.

I would prefer the application run on linux but I am open to a good M$ windows based sound application (please forgive me but I am desperate :)

Unless technology has skyrocketed since I last worked in recording (1995) you'll spend 10x more buying hard drives than you will tapes. I forget the formula but I think 1 sec on 1 track @ 44.1 samples per second equals a meg or so.

I'm pretty sure that the memory usage (not the formula) is still the case. Compression may help.

Good luck,

John

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I am in school and I tape my classes. what I would like to do is to begin to keep digital copies of the taped classes on my computer without taking up so much disk space. what I will do is have the output jack of the tape recorder connected to the input jack of my sound card. I need to know the best sound format and a good (maybe free but I am open to buying a good app) application that will allow me to make digital samples with mono recording and at least radio quality that will not take up a lot of space for a taped class of about an hour.

I would prefer the application run on linux but I am open to a good M$ windows based sound application (please forgive me but I am desperate :)

Using mp3 compression, and keeping CD quality sound, you can get 10-14 times compression. You can sacrifice quality to get much higher, which may well be appropriate since i can't imagine that the recordings are going to be overly hi-fi. Use any simple wav recorder to import it into the computer, then run the .wav's through any number of linux mp3 compression programs. I'm not sure off the top of my head which ones are easiest/best. good luck.

- Josh

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Unless technology has skyrocketed since I last worked in recording (1995) you'll spend 10x more buying hard drives than you will tapes. I forget the formula but I think 1 sec on 1 track @ 44.1 samples per second equals a meg or so.

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I'm pretty sure that the memory usage (not the formula) is still the case. Compression may help.

Good luck,

John

Quoted 11 lines · Bryan Bolden

I am in school and I tape my classes. what I would like to do is to begin to keep digital copies of the taped classes on my computer without taking up so much disk space. what I will do is have the output jack of the tape recorder connected to the input jack of my sound card. I need to know the best sound format and a good (maybe free but I am open to buying a good app) application that will allow me to make digital samples with mono recording and at least radio quality that will not take up a lot of space for a taped class of about an hour.

I would prefer the application run on linux but I am open to a good M$ windows based sound application (please forgive me but I am desperate :)

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Xiphoid Process Records - http://xiphoidprocess.com
San Francisco based Electronic Music.

Using mp3 compression, and keeping CD quality sound, you can get 10-14 times compression. You can sacrifice quality to get much higher, which may well be appropriate since i can't imagine that the recordings are going to be overly hi-fi. Use any simple wav recorder to import it into the computer, then run the .wav's through any number of linux mp3 compression programs. I'm not sure off the top of my head which ones are easiest/best. good luck.

I am in school and I tape my classes. what I would like to do is to begin to keep digital copies of the taped classes on my computer without taking up so much disk space. what I will do is have the output jack of the tape recorder connected to the input jack of my sound card. I need to know the best sound format and a good (maybe free but I am open to buying a good app) application that will allow me to make digital samples with mono recording and at least radio quality that will not take up a lot of space for a taped class of about an hour.