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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: MACE vs ACE
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Date: 19 Oct 90 20:46:04 GMT
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In article <28946@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) writes:
>From the Mac LC specs:
>
>SOUND INPUT
>- Monaural 8-bit sound
>- Sound samples can be made at 22 or 11 kilohertz
>- Macintosh Audio Compression Expansion (MACE) sound utility, supporting
>  3:1 or 6:1 compression, which allows approximately half an hour of
>  sound to stored on a single 40-megabyte hard disk.
>
>What's the best the the ACE tools can do?
2:1 and 8:3 (I have no idea why Apple didn't put these in MACE-- though
the constants for using them are defined)

>What kind of sound quality are you left with after a 6:1 compression?

Lousy-- OK for voice input, though.

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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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