On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 11:50 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > WAVE files don't have a bitrate per-say like lossy formats do. You have bit depth (the audio data is represented by 8-bits, 16-bits, 32-bits, etc., per sample). Which may be unsigned or signed (the numbers represent absolute values above zero, or above and below zero). The choice doesn't make a great deal of sense for audio, which goes above and below zero, by its very nature. And you have a sample rate (the audio data may be sampled at a rate of 44.1 kHz, for example, like compact disc digital audio, where 44,100 times a second an audio sample is taken, or made, depending whether you're talking about recording or replay, at whatever bit-depth your working in). Lossy formats, or even some non-lossy compressed formats, can specify a bit rate, where the amount of compressed data representing your original signal is limited to a bitrate (how many bits per second), by varying the amount, or type, of compression. Essentially, how much data will you compress by, or throw away. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.17.8-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jan 9 00:01:03 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
