Assignment 6

Sound

Part 1

Record audio from a music CD and save it with different audio quality measures.

U2 - New Year's Day

44kHz

16 bit

Stereo

44kHz

16 bit

Mono

44kHz

8 bit

Mono

22kHz

16 bit

Stereo

22kHz

8 bit

Stereo

22kHz

16 bit

Mono

11kHz

8 bit

Mono

sample1 sample2 sample3 sample4 sample5 sample6 sample7
SIZE:904KB 452KB 226KB 452KB 226KB 226KB 56.5KB

I liked sample 1 the most because it sounded better than the rest of the samples. Sample 7 sounds terrible compared to the other samples, has the smallest size, the rate(11khz) is the smallest which also determined its poor audio quality. The sample size is only 8 bits which was not good enough to determine the accuracy of original sound...

Between samples 3,5 and 6, I'd choose sample 5. Its number of samples per second(22khz) was smaller than sample 3 and the fact that sample 5 has an uncompressed stereo sound, made it sound closer to the original file than sample 3 and 6.

Between sample 2 and 4, I'd choose sample 2 because of its better sound. The difference is that sample 2 has a higher number of samples per second(44khz) which made it have a better audio quality.

 

Part 2

 

HandelMysteryFormat.wav         

Audio Format: 8000kHz

8 bit

Mono

SIZE:  110KB

HandelMysteryFormat.wav

HandelMysteryFormat.wav         

Audio Format: 44.100kHz

16 bit

Stereo

SIZE:  2.38MB

HandelMysteryFormatCD.wav

The original file is HandelMysteryFormat.wav (first column). I saved this file at CD quality and named HandelMysteryFormatCD. The audio quality sounded better than the original sound but its size increased a lot.

Part 3

Create an MP3 file.

Wav file            MP3 file

 

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