--- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:15:29 -0700 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Audacity and digital drop boxes (TBob) ------------------ Right now, we are told that there has been no formal limit set on how much we can put into our Blackboard digital drop boxes. We were using a free audio software called "Audacity" for some free-form recording assignments where students produced Wav format recordings and deposited them in Blackboard digital drop boxes: "How to Record Your Own Voice using Audacity" http://www.utm.edu/departments/artsci/modlang/audacity.shtml The Wav. files are, however quite large, and we were having problems making and "exporting" smaller MP3 files using our G3s running either Mac OS 9.0.4 or 9.2.2. Today we found that be adding a "library" called "Lame" LAME http://spaghetticode.org/lame/ we can make and export MP3 files which are about one eleventh the size of identical Wav files. This should be very helpful to us in the long run. They also pass quickly through email if professors prefer a primitive situation. TBob -- ========================================================== Look it up in the Andy Holt Virtual Library http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml ========================================================== Robert D. Peckham, PhD Director, the Globe-Gate Project Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center Department of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee-Martin http://globegate.org/french/globe.html