[X4U] Which format for Music?

DZ-Jay dz at caribe.net
Mon Aug 15 02:11:10 PDT 2005


On Aug 14, 2005, at 12:16, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> On 8/14/05 7:33 AM, DZ-Jay <dz at caribe.net> wrote:
>
>> An AIFF file takes roughly 1MB of disk space for each minute of audio
>
> I think it takes much more than that. By that formula, a 4-minute song
> ripped in AIFF format would be 4MB in size. I think it would actually 
> be in
> the hundreds of MBs.
>
> The 1 minute to 1MB ratio is actually more applicable to MP3 encoding.
>

I'm so sorry, I missed the zero.  its 10MB per minute of song.  ALEC 
takes about 5MB.

	dZ.



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