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The size of a sound file is equal to the size of the header plus the product of the number of samples, the quantization size, and the number of channels.
For instance, a stereo sound with a duration of 3 seconds, sampled at 44100 Hz, would, when written into a 16-bit NeXT/Sun file, take up a disk space of
28 + 2 * 3.0 * 44100 * 2 = 529228 bytes |
whereas the same sound, when averaged to mono, downsampled to 8000 Hz, and written into a μ-law NeXT/Sun file, take up only a disk space of
28 + 1 * 3.0 * 8000 * 1 = 24028 bytes |
The first example is typical of CD quality, the second of telephone speech.
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