typical file size in mp3

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1trees
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typical file size in mp3

Post by 1trees » Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:51 am

I am converting my old tapes to digital. An album recorded at 43 minutes in length, exported into mp3 seems to be 43 mb. Is that a typical file size? It seems very large to me.
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Re: typical file size in mp3

Post by billw58 » Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:55 am

That would be about 430 MB on a CD (i.e. similar to a WAV file). So you've gotten about 10-to-1 compression. Pretty typical for mp3. You could set the bit rate lower to get a smaller file but the audio quality would suffer.

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Re: typical file size in mp3

Post by steve » Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:23 pm

1 meg per minute is about average for medium quality MP3 (stereo)
10 meg per minute for CD quality WAV.
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