Topic: transfers and hardrive space

[Gordon]

so I'm new to transfering. I just got a audiophile2496.  my computer is a bucket so we put it on my buddys.  ussing soundforge6.0>cdwave.  I talked to him today and he said the one show we did (about 3 hours or so) took up 4 gigs and he couldn't even resample it untill he cleaned up disc space.  does this sound right?

[Gordon]

oh yea. he has an 18 gig harddrive.  there are a lot of shns/flacs he has downl;oaded thsat we need to clear off.

[DaryanLenz]

No, doesn't sound right to me at all.  Unless you are in the 24/96 realm, those files should be well under 1.8 GB!

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[jpschust]

ok some suggestions- i assume you are using windows.  look at your recycle bin- you can change the amount of cache size it uses.  take that baby down to zero.  frees up a bunch of space.

second, go buy another hard drive.  over on compgeeks they have a 120gig 7200 RPM drive for like 100 bucks.  Its worth it to have the free space.

[greenone]

For reference, 2 hours of 16-bit stereo audio at 44.1kHz takes up 1.17GB...that's the size chunk I used to use because my program would choke on anything bigger. Like Daryan said, if you're at 16/44, that puts you right under 1.8GB for three hours.

--Dave

ps. Love the avatar.