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It plays most audio formats.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilkster" <The_Ilkster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:01 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: To MP3 or to not MP3
Thanks everyone for the good ideas(winamp & daisy). And yes, Kevin, I realize the structure of a project file. The .cwp file is only a handful of K, while the audio wave file is the culpret-nearly a half gig in size. I found another solution using Sonar-and it seems to work fairly well-especially since it allows me to stick to using sonar exclusively. The solution:
What I've done is to compress the audio as an MP3 file-reducing the audio from 480 meg in its wave form to 50 meg as a mp3. Then, using the delete dialog, delete everything except the markers, and then save the project. Finally, clean the audio folders with the tools menu option. Now the massive wave file is gone, but the .cwp and the mp3 file remain. To use the project, I simply load the saved .cwp file which has nothing but the markers, and import the mp3 file and the markers align to the expanded mp3 audio file-back in business minus the half gig storage costs.
Granted, its a two step process, but I'll be doing quite a few of these tapes, and want to keep them readily available without chewing up a large chunk of my 80GB audio storage. Without the compression, 20 or 30 such tapes would run into 10 to 15 GB, which is unacceptable.
That Winamp thing looks pretty good though as well.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin L. Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 7:03 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: To MP3 or to not MP3
First, understand that just because the size of a CWP file says .5mb, it doesn't actually mean that the size of the file is only .5MB. That's the size of the project file. It references a .WAV file that is probably pretty damned big. You're best shot is to save these things as .CWB files and back them off your active drive to some other reliable storage media. That way, when you need them, you can reload them and all your marker data will be there for you. K.
-----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ilkster Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 3:41 PM To: ddots-l Subject: [ddots-l] To MP3 or to not MP3
I am using Sonar to convert audio taped conversations , typically an hour or so in length, to Computer files. These tapes are running approx .5 GB each when stored as CakeWalk projects. Of course, I can convert them to MP3 files and save huge amounts of storage. However, I have many markers in
these files which I'd like to keep, and converting to an MP3 file for storage purposes will lose the markers.
Is there any way to save the markers, short of writing them down in a Notepad text file and storing it alongside the mp3?
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