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Post by Will R (admin) on Jan 1, 2014 23:50:20 GMT
WAV format is lossless, open-source, widely-available, widely-supported.
Another name: AIFF.
The back of the box may talk about "PCM" or Pulse Code Modulation. This is the method used to create WAV files. If it records using PCM, then it is making WAV files.
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Post by ndokopyako on Jan 2, 2014 1:50:54 GMT
Why not MP3? The files take up less space on my hard drive. Aren't they widely available and widely supported?
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Post by Will R (admin) on Jan 2, 2014 2:38:25 GMT
MP3 files are smaller, true. The trouble is that they are made smaller by data reduction. To downsize the file, data points are discarded. Lots of them. And you can't get them back. So even though the MP3 file format is widely used and widely supported, the loss of data makes it undesirable.
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Post by michael on Sept 19, 2014 2:24:04 GMT
What do you know about Apple Lossless (ALAC or ALE)? Wikipedia says that while some m4a files are lossy, the ones made with the ALAC are lossless, and also that it's a non-proprietary format that can be converted to WAV easily if need be. I'm asking because I don't have a real audio recorder yet (hoping to get one sometime this year) but I do have an iPhone with the basic voice recording apps. I'm wondering if using the iPhone in the meantime can still make recordings of reasonable value/quality.
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