On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 17:08 -0600, JD wrote: > I do know what wav files are. Uncompressed audio files. They're a sound file (as are MP3s, OGGs, and various other audio files). One might say that they're a Windows format, but I seem to recall that it's a sound blaster thing (a brand of sound card, from donkey's years ago). Anyway, most players can play wave files, directly. But they are rather large files. As a prior poster has mentioned, you can encode them into another format, to reduce their size. As an added benefit, most of the compressed audio formats (FLAC, OGG, MP3, et cetera), also allow you to insert details about the track (track title, performer's name, et cetera), making it easier to find what you want in your sound player. The disadvantage of most of the compressed formats is loss of audio quality. Flac isn't a lossy compressor, you can get the original data back, exactly. Ogg and MP3 are lossy compressors, some data is lost, but they make much smaller files. I find that Ogg files sound much better, most MP3s have horrible compression artifacts unless they're compressed at very high bit rates (well above 256 kbits/sec). > I was hoping to delete them and use just the one file which krb says > is the image. While possible, it's probably more convenient to keep the audio tracks as separate files, unless you really do want to play albums in one go. Not to mention that some audio players seem to struggle when handling such huge files as a whole disc in one go. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
