On 26 Sep 2005 at 5:14, Darcy James Argue wrote: > The only thing I would add is that iTunes (the Mac version, at least) > includes Apple Lossless, a compression technology that allows full > WAV/AIFF quality at half the size. If space is really at a premium, > you could try that (provided it's included in iTunes for Windows).
Well, that's worth looking at for storing the files on hard drive, but I'm probably going to make audio CDs from the WAV files and then delete them from the hard drive. The difficulty with using the Apple format is that none of my audio programs would probably be able to use it directly to write CDs or make MP3s (other than iTunes itself). I refuse to use iTunes to burn CDs because it insists on loading its own CD driver service, which I'm not interested in (and which could conflict with my existing writable CD support). I use iTunes as nothing but an audio player, an in that regard, it's superb -- MP3s always sound significantly better played from iTunes than from any other player I have. I wish I knew what iTunes was doing (beyond normalization, which I do on the WAV files before conversion to MP3, but on a whole work, rather than on individual movements) because I'd love to be able to save it into the MP3 files permanently (like saving HP data in Finale). I actually haven't tried creating an MP3 with iTunes itself to see if it made a better MP3 -- I should try it (though I'd miss batch conversion). As to the MIDI files, which Dennis suggested archiving and deleting, they are so tiny, there's no reason for me to delete them. All the MIDI files on my computer don't add up to one of the MP3 files, let alone one of the WAV files! And the MIDI files are 1/10 or less the size of the corresponding Finale files from which they were generated, so I'm definitely going to keep them around. There's also the possibility of my upgrading my system's hard drive storage from 60GBs to 100GBs (I happen to have two unused hard drives that I could swap for the existing hard drives), which would help a lot, but it's a lot of work to do that. I'm also considering buying a new motherboard for my system so that I can get a much faster computer. Right now I'm on a tight budget and an entirely new system is just not in the cards. But I'd huge projects like that always eat up more time than I think they will, so I'm wary of embarking on that journey if I can avoid it. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
