!!!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:
* [FLAC - download|https://www.xiph.org/flac/download.html]
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! :-)