Re: TECH: software for recording your voice

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:35:52 -0400, Mia Soderquist =
<tuozine@...>
wrote:

>Sally Caves wrote:
>> See, now this is exactly what I don't want to hear.  I want to hear
>> success stories.  What is the difference between the Real stuff and
>> MP3?  Which one is better?  Less trouble?  Easier to deal with?
>> Requires fewer subsequent downloads?  Works with my REALPLAYER?
>> Come on guys, don't you think I should stick to one system?  Herman,
>> where are you?  ;-)
Right here....

>> Sally
>> >
>
>I thought that I would throw my 2 cents in on this. I have
> Realplayer G2, and haven't had any more problems with Netscape
> than I had before anyway. <G> RealJukebox seems to lock me
>up fairly often so that I have to reboot to recover. <grrrrrrr>
>
>I like MP3's for sound quality, but I think they are somewhat
>larger than real audio files and real audio is so widely used
>that it seems a good choice for putting on the Web.
You can use different levels of compression when creating MP3 files, just
as with RealAudio. Still, anything less than 56Kbps isn't all that good,
while 40Kbps RealAudio files sound just fine. I haven't done many
comparisons yet, but it seems from my preliminary testing that 56Kbps is
the minimum quality that is usable for conlang samples, which is 1.4 =
times
the size of comparable RealAudio files. So I'll probably stick with
RealAudio for the near future.

RealPlayer G2 plays many kinds of audio files, including MP3. I don't =
know
when they added that feature, since I have a separate MP3 player.

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