Audio compression question

[blount5150]

Hope this is the right forum -

I just need to capture the audio from a VHS. I am using Polderbits (i think that's the way it's spelled) which is recording it in a wave file. About 5 minutes worth of audio equals about 30 MB....is there anyway I could compress this or do something different to get the file size to the same as a regular song on a CD?

Thanks...

JB

[bugster]

CD audio is uncompressed PCM at 44.1khz sample rate. Your file size looks roughly correct for that. If you want it smaller for storage on your PC you compress it to one of many formats such as mp2, mp3, ogg-vorbis etc. These would only be converted back to PCM if you then used it to burn an audio-CD and would cause some quality loss during the conversion process as all these formats are lossy compression. If you don't intend to burn it on an Audio CD, mp3 at 192kbps or even 256 Kbps would probably be your best bet.

[blount5150]

That answers it for me...I am doing a project from some recordings 10 years ago during college...I wanted to send everyone involved a disc, but it looks like 2 or 3 disc per person project. Thanks for the input

[sanjayk]

I agree with bugster. You can convert the wav file to MP3 format which is now the most popular audio compression format though other formats are also available. One good compression tool is "River Past Audio Converter". Loads of free tool are available on the net for download.