Posted by fred-bloggs on 11/17/40 11:43

Charles Russell <SPAMworFREEwor@bellsouth.net> wrote in
news:9YZVf.10626$Q6.3157@bignews5.bellsouth.net:

>>>
>>>Does the Zen player support MP3 only at 44.1 kHz sample rates?
>>>I thought even the earliest MP3 standard permitted several rates,
>>>down to 16 kHz for voice. I should hope that such files would be
>>>portable to all current players.
>>>
>>
>>
>> MPEG1 defined only 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 48 kHz.
>> MPEG2 added 16 kHz, 22.05 kHz and 24 kHz.
>>
>
> What formats does the Zen player support? I had no luck trying to
> find on the web detailed specifications of supported file formats for
> the different players, even for Apple. The Ipod my kids gave me for
> Christmas handles 16 kHz and even 11.025 kHz, as does the Goldwave
> audio editor. If I had been spending my own money and gotten a
> cheaper MP3 player, would I be unable to play my highly compressed
> low-fidelity voice files directly without reformatting to bigger
> files?
>

Changing the sample rate doesn't alter the size of the mp3 files.

Does your Ipod support mp3 @ 8 khz? The Zen does.

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fred

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