Intention of the Voice & Data chapter#
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! :-)