I've been recording my vinyl in audacity, 24 bit with bit rate set at either 96K or 192K. JRiver Media Center reports these as 4800-4900 for the flac files and 9216 for the wav files. Do these programs define bit-rate differently? Why is JRiver reporting audacity's 192,000 bit rate at 9,216??
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rhk
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Re: bit rate
For WAV files you can easily calculate the actual sample rate.
The total size of a WAV file will be just a little over: number of bytes per sample x number of channels x duration of recording in seconds.
For example, at 44100 Hz sample rate, 16 bit stereo, 6 minute recording:
"16 bit" is 2 bytes.
2 channel 16 bit at 44100 Hz is: 2 x 2 x 44100 = 176400 bytes per second
6 minutes = 360 seconds.
Total file size = 360 x 176400 = 63504000 bytes (about 60 MB).
So now you can work out if your files really are 192 kHz, 24 bit, stereo, WAV.
The total size of a WAV file will be just a little over: number of bytes per sample x number of channels x duration of recording in seconds.
For example, at 44100 Hz sample rate, 16 bit stereo, 6 minute recording:
"16 bit" is 2 bytes.
2 channel 16 bit at 44100 Hz is: 2 x 2 x 44100 = 176400 bytes per second
6 minutes = 360 seconds.
Total file size = 360 x 176400 = 63504000 bytes (about 60 MB).
So now you can work out if your files really are 192 kHz, 24 bit, stereo, WAV.
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Re: bit rate
Just for anyone else reading this, 96000 Hz and 192000 Hz are sample rates, not bit rates.rhkrhk wrote: 24 bit with bit rate set at either 96K or 192K.
Gale
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