Keeping the file size down

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2012/07/26 14:25:53 (permalink)

Keeping the file size down

Hello this is my first day using cakewalk software and this is what I need it to do, so if anyone can help it is much appreciated..
 
I'm a very auditory learner so I purchased a microphone that has this cakewalk program, while I know its very advanced and has alot of features the main thing I'd like to accomplish is simply to record my voice reading my text books so I can play them back on my phone or mp3 player or my winamp on my Computer...
 
so a decent quality recording with minimum file size. 
 
for example I used the windows in system mic recording program and got a 11 min clip around 8MB... but can't pause, edit etc...
 
use cakewalk, export to wma clip for approx the same time is 31 MB ...
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    Re:Keeping the file size down 2012/07/26 16:54:01 (permalink)
    That's more or less in the right ball park.

    It's about 10 meg a min for full stereo (44.1 16bit), so 11 minutes = 110Mb, mono = 55Mb


    size = sample rate * number of channels * (bits per sample /8) * time in seconds.





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    Re:Keeping the file size down 2012/07/26 17:05:17 (permalink)
    is there another format that would make the size more reasonable?
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    Re:Keeping the file size down 2012/07/26 17:12:11 (permalink)

    It's recommended that you do this is 2 stages - frst export it as a wav and listen to it for anything that needs correcting, then dump it down into Mp3

    That will shrink it up to about 8Mb (or thereabouts)

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    Re:Keeping the file size down 2012/07/26 17:23:31 (permalink)
    Thank you Bristol..
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