Audio Cassette formats; what about ADAM?

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Wed Nov 25 21:57:13 1998

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> My vote is mono 22Khz 16-bit (tho 8 might be fine for some types of
> computers - it would prolly depend on the type of encoding it used) and
> then zip the file... you could prolly swing 1.25Meg per minute of sound
> zipped (assuming 2:1 compression - it might be higher) which would give you
> 8.6 hours of audio stored per 650Meg CD... Not bad #'s IMHO.

In my experience, sound files do not compress well at all with PKZIP. I
don't know about WAV files in particular, but I'm lucky if I can squeeze
10% off the ADPCM files that I work with.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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