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March 7th, 2008 01:00
Digital Media Enhancements
Hi,
I inherited my fathers Inspiron 1501 and am learning to use the All Sound Recorder XP program. I've copied a cassette tape to the pc and broke it into tracks! Now on my Dimension E520 Win XP MCE I just noticed this program...Digital Media Enhancements. I never noticed it before, did it come down in a windows update?
I recorded my tape into WAV files but they take up a lot of room. Is that the best format? I see I can use the Digital Enhancements to convert them to WMA, is that what I should do now to save room?
Christine
Dimension E520 Desktop
MS Media Center Edition 2005 - Current
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March 7th, 2008 04:00
volvogirl1:
I have MCE 2005, and as far as I can recall, it came from Dell with Digital Media Enhancements pre-installed. I'm not an expert on this, but here is what worked for me:
I'm not familiar with the All Sound Recorder XP program, but I have converted a lot of my vinyl LPs into various formats for burning onto CDs. Initially this would involve recording as high quality WAV files, running them through a program to clean up the pops and hisses, then compressing them into MP3 format (for burning to CDs), or WMA format (for keeping on my PC). I actually used another program for this, but the Windows Audio Converter in DME seems capable of converting to both. Either way, I didn't want to keep my recordings in WAV format permanently on my PC, where a typical 4 minute recording was about 20 MB, versus about 4-5 MB for a WMA or MP3, depending on the bit rate of the conversion.
If you hover over your recorded WAV files with your mouse, it should indicate what bit rate/file size it is. Thus you might have a 705 kbps/20 MB WAV file from the original recording. If you then right-click on the WAV file, then on "Convert Audio Format", Windows Audio Converter will open. From the drop-down box, select your desired output file format, and use the slider to set the quality. In general, I would suggest at least 128 Kbps to preserve quality for WMA (the more you compress, the more sound quality you lose). If you choose MPEG- Layer 3 (MP3), I would suggest a minimum of 196 Kbps.
The quality of the original WAV file will determine how much compression you can tolerate before you notice a loss of quality in the sound, so you will have to experiment a bit.