Voice and Data Cassettes
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The main goal of this chapter is to provide the user with information regarding the capabilities of Atari to mix Voice & Data on Cassettes#

Below are given some examples of how Atari has done this.#

If you intend to record cassettes from Atari, please use the wav-format, 16-bit stereo and 44.1 kHz. With those parameters we do have the best experiences.#

Files in wav-format are very big in size and therefore not very cool for download. We prefer the FLAC-format:#

It is possible to convert the wav-files without(!) loss to flac-files (around 50 % less compare to wav-files) when opening in a shell. And back to wav-files of course. Please see the example below for further info.#

In Mac OS X please use the Terminal-app and for a wav-file called A.wav use the following commands:#

coding:#

flac -8 /Volumes/"your harddrive"/A.wav#

decoding:#

flac -d /Volumes/"your harddrive"/A.flac#

That's all! Enjoy! :-)#