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lawrenceq
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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Windsor, Ontario

Do you use Audacity or know about saving recorded files? help!

hey fellow TA's , i just got my Imic2 in the mail and it works nicely, but i was playing around an dput a 30 minute set together, and i exported it as one single file in WAV format. now I was expecting it to be no larger then 50mb, but it turned out to be 350mb. Can anyone briefly explain why it ends up being this large, and how I can change that... cheers
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Feb-13-2007 04:35

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idoru
You Can Call Me Al

Registered: May 2004
Location: Cascadia

You're expecting it to be 50MB because that's what a high-quality MP3 would be. A .WAV is close to, if not uncompressed. It has all of your data in the highest quality possible. You can download DBPoweramp to convert your .WAV to MP3, or you can download the LAME codec and write it to MP3 right from Audacity. I'd go with the second option, because DBPoweramp needs LAME (as far as I know).

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Konix
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Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Detroit

Yes, one minute of a wav is about 10MB.

Feb-13-2007 06:33 United States

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lawrenceq
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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Windsor, Ontario

Cheers for the advice, by the way Konix, your in Detroit right? did you come to the SVD set for New years at the Boom Boom Room?

Feb-13-2007 15:17

auujay
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Cleveland

idoru is exactly right about the file size. All you need is the LAME codec and you can export to MP3 from within Audacity. Download the latest LAME installer, install it, then tell Audacity where you put it on your computer and you should be good to go.

http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.php

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