Thanks for the responses. Flash On Thursday 12 May 2005 12:29 pm, Ken Dawson / Chia Wu wrote: > I have been studying WAV files from various sources, and find that it is > possible to alter the sampling rate of the recording (i.e, instead of > CD-quality at 44.1K, I've seen 22050, and even 16K). Mostly the sources I > have seen in this form have been spoken word -- radio programs, interviews, > etc -- but the results have been OK (obviously with expected loss in > frequency range). Combined with making the recording monaural, the WAV file > size can be smaller. > > /ken > > 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
