Windows Sound Recorder can send the recorded data on-the-fly through a codec for compression. Obviously if you are planning on editing the audio, you're best recording in a non-lossy format. If you're recording off a cheap mic, you can probably record at a much lower bitrate/frequency using only mono. Everytime you drop any of the previous, your filesize will drop. This should make the uncompressed file much smaller. later, Steve On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 22:09 -0500, Flash Love wrote: > I recorded a one hour audio session using windows Sound Recorder for a friend > and much to my chagrin and my friend's dismay, the Audacity edited file is > over 400M! > > This friend is now telling me that in the past when the same one hour > recording session was done the file size never exceeded 27M. I do not doubt > them, but I have no idea how to reduce/compress this wave file. > > If someone knows how I can reduce this one hour wave formatted session to a > file size of 27M, please let me know. > > Thanks > Flash
