From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jhall@UU.NET (Jeremy Hall) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 06:11:20 +0000 Subject: Re: best sound format and app. for recording voice. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org 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 :) >