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Originally Posted by joshua  Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
My church still uses tapes to record the sermons/sunday school stuff. So I found (above) free software which allows one to convert audio cassette to digital, then export such a file to MP3.
A few questions:
For a 40 minute message, how big should an MP3 file be? The one I did was 38.8mb. Is that too large?
If so, how do I reduce it?
When I uploaded the MP3 to my website, so that a few people could download it, it's a LONG wait to download...not like the sermons at SermonAudio. We're talking 5-7 minute wait.
Any suggestions? |
It's way too big for 40 minutes. It should be closer to about 8 MB.
Fred helped me out with this a number of months back. I have really benefitted from using dBPowerAmp.
I usually record in WAV or 128 kbps MP3 because I want to make sure the digital master is generally pretty clean and 128 kbps is more than sufficient.
I then use dBPowerAmp to convert it to 32kbps MP3. They have a really nice algorithm that does a better job than the LAME MP3 algorithm. Try downloading the program and experimenting with different formats.
As for your Chuch and cassete tapes, just for the time alone I would recommend getting an MP3 recorder. Sitting around waiting for 40-50 minutes to record everything, eliminating tape hiss and editing the file is a pain. I can just convert right from the device.