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- From: ben@monmouth.edu (Bennett Broder)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
- Subject: Re: Compression of sound files?
- Message-ID: <7810@monmouth.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:40:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.121957.10091@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> <1992Nov23.124009.619@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764
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- In article <1992Nov23.124009.619@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mxl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (marc.a.levy) writes:
- %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? ;-)
-
- %By your estimation, the show would be 105M.
- %
- %You must be kidding!
-
- He was. The ;-) after his comment is a smiley, and means that his comment
- was made in jest.
-
- %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!
-
- What does a CD have to do with audio on a Sparc? A CD has approximately
- 88,000 16 bit samples per second of audio (44,000 samples x 2 channels for
- stereo). Sparc audio has 8000 8 bit samples per second (actually 12 bit
- samples compressed to 8 bits with u-law encoding)
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