Book of the New Sun Audiobooks?

Matthew King · 14 Jun 2007, 21:59 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: automatthew at gmail.com (Matthew King)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:59:56 -0500
Subject: (urth) Book of the New Sun Audiobooks?
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On Jun 14, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Rex Lycanthrosaurus wrote:

> According to the seller's information there are 50 hours of audio  
> on the
> two disks. 50 X 60 = 3000 minutes -- not 1600. Curiouser and  
> curiouser.

mp3 compression is very tunable, and you can get especially low file  
sizes when working with spoken word recordings.

Case in point, I just now finished preparing an mp3 recording of an  
hour long class. The final size was 6 MB.

At that level of compression, you can get over 100 hours on a CD.

Matthew

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