[linux-audio-user] why is my mp3 file bigger than my wav file?

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Subject: [linux-audio-user] why is my mp3 file bigger than my wav file?
From: Laura Conrad (lconrad_AT_laymusic.org)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 01:12:45 EET

I'm dubbing a live recording to hard disc, with the idea of putting up
mp3 files for people who participated in the performance to listen
to. The recording is unfortunately a mono recording, if that matters.

I recorded via:

        ecasound -i /dev/dsp -o lingham.wav

I then did some minimal editing with snd (just chopping off extraneous
stuff from the beginning and end), and created an mp3 file via:

        ecasound -i lingham.wav -o lingham.mp3

When I list the files, I get:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 lconrad lconrad 2322432 Feb 1 17:11 lingham.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lconrad lconrad 1163619 Feb 1 17:06 lingham.wav

The point of making the mp3 file was to get the compression -- what
did I do wrong? 

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Laura (mailto:lconrad_AT_laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
(617) 661-8097	fax: (801) 365-6574 
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