On 4 Feb 2007 at 16:51, Andrew Stiller wrote: > I can probably get AIFF files straight from the composer in this > case--but tell me about Audacity anyway. Sounds useful.
Audacity opens AIFF files. Just Google it and download it. It's free, and it's very, very good. > BTW, I was surprised at how big the MP3 files were for the movements > of a piano trio--6 MB each, on the average. I thought the big > advantage of MP3 was its compactness. The original source files are likely 30-40MBs or more, so MP3 *is* a big improvement in compactness. You might be able to get better compression by using a different codec than was original used, but my experience has been that the differences for the kind of music I'm working with are usually relatively minor. You can also get smaller files by lowering the bit-rate, but at the sacrifice of quality. I stick with 192K for most of my MP3s for web downloading, as it doesn't lose nearly as much of the high end as 128K and it's not a whole lot larger. I've experimented with variable bit-rate, but, again, the file size savings were never significant enough for me to risk the small number of people who have MP3 players that can't handle VBR files. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
