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- From: mxl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (marc.a.levy)
- Subject: Re: Compression of sound files?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.124009.619@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <1992Nov21.121957.10091@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:40:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.121957.10091@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> horowitz@ccscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Matthew Horowitz) writes:
- >I remember listening to a .au file on a Sparc that lasted about 1 minute or
- >so, and it was only 350k (completely spoken text, no music). Is this
- >accurate? If so, is someone willing to record the whole Stern show every day
- >and post it for anonymous FTP? ;-)
- >
- >Question 2: How do I convert .iff , .au, whatever to windows .wav files?
- >
- By your estimation, the show would be 105M.
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- You must be kidding!
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- the maximum time of a CD is 72 Min, so you are asking someone
- to FTP the equivalant of 4 CD's worth of data. I dont know
- about anyone else, but I dont even have enough disk space for
- that much data! Even for your 105M estimation!
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- Marc
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