Re: best sound format and app. for recording voice.

[John Starkey <jstarkey@polaris.umuc.edu>]

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

Bryan Bolden wrote:

> 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 :)