t...biteme wrote:

Hello

I wisht o convert 30 minute tapes to a digital format.
Is it better to use MP3 or WAV files. My concern is that these will be lrge
files and may crash the hard drive?


It depends on what the content is -- music or voice, for example. You
will typically get more than 6x reduction in file size between WAV files
and MP3 files (MP3) being smaller) and you probably won't notice the
difference. When I'm grabbing something from an HF QSO I always save it
in MP3.

Go to http://lame.sourceforge.net/ and download a really good MP3
encoder and decide for yourself.

Dave
KZ1O