Want To Load Analog Music

[Pre-occupied With 1985]

I just tried recording audio from an analog cassette
player using the sound recorder and transfered the file
from the recorder to WMP library no proplem. The proplem
is it takes up a lot of disk space. 43.4MB to be exact
for one song. I even tried converting the file from a wav
file to wma file to see if that would make a difference
no change. I have alot of 80's songs that I Would like to
add to my media library from cassette but won't be able
to load too many songs if their file sizes are to big.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.thanx

Preoccupied With 1985

 

[Galley]

I just tried recording audio from an analog cassette
player using the sound recorder and transfered the file
from the recorder to WMP library no proplem. The proplem
is it takes up a lot of disk space. 43.4MB to be exact
for one song. I even tried converting the file from a wav
file to wma file to see if that would make a difference
no change. I have alot of 80's songs that I Would like to
add to my media library from cassette but won't be able
to load too many songs if their file sizes are to big.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.thanx

Preoccupied With 1985

Record from the line-in jack, and encode as MP3, using Audacity. A 128Kbps MP3
requires only 1MB/minute, whereas a WAV file requires 10MB.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

[pre-occupied]

-----Original Message-----


Record from the line-in jack, and encode as MP3, using Audacity. A 128Kbps MP3
requires only 1MB/minute, whereas a WAV file requires 10MB.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Galley
.
thanx.I'll check it out.

 

[Michael]

If you want good sound, you'll have to buy a larger drive - 200GB would hold
around 22 days of contiuous playback, no repeats, files; i.e. around 8,000
files/songs at best .wma ("losseless") quality.
I wouldn't bother with all that work to end up with 1MB/ex poor quality
mp3's.
Michael