If you have a connection that slow, I'd strongly suggest compressing it down
as another copy for transferring.
I used to take IRN/Newstalk ZB Affiliates bulletins and had to get them
ready to transfer back out to another system.
I had a spare old Windows computer though with a bunch of batch files and
command line utilities that let me do anything and everything from
normalise, peak limit, change stereo to mono (via sox in Wnidows), then
compress it down to either MP3 or WavPack. I went WavPack (lossless) because
it would retain all the cart chunk data (riff header) and a mono news files
ended up the same size as a Layer-2 256Kbps stereo file. So I could
redistibute in lossless form. Then another copy was made in to 80Kbps MP3
mono. The result was a 1.3MB mono news file but the library and news on the
automation system was all wave file.
Unfortunately I haven't learnt enough to do this scripting in Liunx yet so I
still do all my FTP'ing on a Windows machine that hosts a few other
services.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Landry" <[email protected]>
To: "Alan Smith" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] rdimport converting mono file to stereo?
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Alan Smith wrote:
I haven't really paid attention to see if you can globally set "mono",
but in this day and age, hard drive storage space is cheap for audio (try
doing video, as in TV automation!).
Hard drive space may be cheap, but I have to copy the imported file across
the Internet to another system on a bandwidth-challenged DSL connection.
21 MB takes more than twice as long to copy as 7 MB.
Most of the tine, this isn't a problem, but in the summer, thousands of
tourists armed with iPads and smartphones descend on that island, and file
transfers get slooooooooooooooooooooow. There is of course only one ISP
there, and it can't easily accommodate the increase in demand.
Rob
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