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From: Hugh Messenger
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:24:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Music clips

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, cryforhelp wrote:

> I did try recording 27 seconds of playing as a .wav file; the size of it
> was distressing, >1.2Mb. Is this gross file size the problem?

Yes. Multiply 1.2Mb by 750 or so, and you can imagine why I don't want
that going through my mail server or my Internet connection. That'd be
around a gigabyte!

Then there's all those people on harp-l not in the US who have to pay for
every minute of telco and online time, connecting over 14.4 modems (about
7 or 8 minutes to down load a meg sound file).

Then there's the majority of harp-l who couldn't play the files even if
they did download them!!

Much better to stick them on a web/ftp site, where only the folk who
really want 'em have to download them.

I also want a permanent library of sounds, not just once of handing out of
same.

> Is there
> a way to convert .wav to .mid, which seems like a much more compact
> format (don't know much about this technology as you can tell).

Not that I know of. Kind of like trying to reverse engineer a bitmap
image into (say) a vectored graphics file.

> --cryforhelp--

-- hugh