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

[jhall@UU.NET (Jeremy Hall)]

You should be able to get pretty good compression by selecting mp3's and
encoding mono at 56k.  That should help.

See http://www.sulaco.org/mp3 (I think /mp3) for lame

_J

In the new year, 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 :) 
>