fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (10/19/90)
From the Mac LC specs: SOUND INPUT - Monaural 8-bit sound - Sound samples can be made at 22 or 11 kilohertz - Macintosh Audio Compression Expansion (MACE) sound utility, supporting 3:1 or 6:1 compression, which allows approximately half an hour of sound to stored on a single 40-megabyte hard disk. What's the best the the ACE tools can do? What kind of sound quality are you left with after a 6:1 compression? Better yet, how often do people want to fill a 40MB hard drive with 30 minutes of digitized noise?!? Just curious. -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ..!ucbvax!cory!fadden fadden@avalanche.berkeley.edu (when cory throws up)
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (10/20/90)
In article <28946@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) writes: >From the Mac LC specs: > >SOUND INPUT >- Monaural 8-bit sound >- Sound samples can be made at 22 or 11 kilohertz >- Macintosh Audio Compression Expansion (MACE) sound utility, supporting > 3:1 or 6:1 compression, which allows approximately half an hour of > sound to stored on a single 40-megabyte hard disk. > >What's the best the the ACE tools can do? 2:1 and 8:3 (I have no idea why Apple didn't put these in MACE-- though the constants for using them are defined) >What kind of sound quality are you left with after a 6:1 compression? Lousy-- OK for voice input, though. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.