Converting KB - Bytes

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I've been using a turntable, pre-amp/mixer, and a wave editor to convert
some 1950's vintage LPs to wav files.

I just finished one side of an album and my wave editor shows:

Bytes: 36625050

and when I save the file to my hard drive (XP Home), Windows File Explorer
shows:

filename.wav 143,067 KB

For the life of me, I can't reconcile the two sizes. Can anyone help?
 
Jeff said:
I've been using a turntable, pre-amp/mixer, and a wave editor to convert
some 1950's vintage LPs to wav files.

I just finished one side of an album and my wave editor shows:

Bytes: 36625050

and when I save the file to my hard drive (XP Home), Windows File Explorer
shows:

filename.wav 143,067 KB

For the life of me, I can't reconcile the two sizes. Can anyone help?
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Just for your information :-

36625050 Bytes = 36625 KB or Kilo Bytes = 36.6 MB or Mega Bytes
143067000 Bytes = 143067 KB or Kilo Bytes = 143 MB or Mega Bytes
 
Jeff said:
I've been using a turntable, pre-amp/mixer, and a wave editor to convert
some 1950's vintage LPs to wav files.

I just finished one side of an album and my wave editor shows:

Bytes: 36625050

and when I save the file to my hard drive (XP Home), Windows File Explorer
shows:

filename.wav 143,067 KB

For the life of me, I can't reconcile the two sizes. Can anyone help?
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Wonder whether your wave editor is showing "last track" rather than
"complete filesize?"

....Bill
 
Just for your information :-

36625050 Bytes = 36625 KB or Kilo Bytes = 36.6 MB or Mega Bytes
143067000 Bytes = 143067 KB or Kilo Bytes = 143 MB or Mega Bytes
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Yes, and that's why I can't figure this out.
 
Wonder whether your wave editor is showing "last track" rather than
"complete filesize?"

...Bill
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That would be reasonable, because there are five tracks on the side 1 of
the album. 5 x 36 is close to 143, given that they are not all the same
size, and the last track is the longest BUT, I recorded the entire side 1
as a single track and the editor showed 36625050 Bytes. Then, when I
said File, Save as, and saved it to my hard drive, Windows Explorer
reported the file as 143,067 KB.

The editor thinks the entire side 1 is one track. I did not set it up to
cut tracks when silence is 'heard'. I, will, however, watch to see if
the file size indicator on the editor is reset at the beginnin of each
track, even when set to record an entire side as one long track.

I may contact the manufacturer, DAK.com. I'm using their DAK Wave MP3
Editor Pro, version 3.6b.
 
kb = really kib = 2^10 = 1024
MB = really MiB = 2^20 = 1 048 576

Windows is older than the units of measurement prefixes ki, Mi, and Gi. So it uses k for ki. They are not powers of 10 in windows but powers of 2.

Only hard drive manufacturers use decimal to describe their product.
 
None of which answers the OP's question of how about 36MB data was stored as
about 143MB file.

Jeff - you'd probably best send a query to the wave editor company, or look
on forums devoted to that product. It's not a Windows issue, per se.

Val

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"David Candy" <.> wrote ...
kb = really kib = 2^10 = 1024
MB = really MiB = 2^20 = 1 048 576

Windows is older than the units of measurement prefixes ki, Mi, and Gi. So
it uses k for ki. They are not powers of 10 in windows but powers of 2.

Only hard drive manufacturers use decimal to describe their product.
 
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