[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by charlene

and I'm waiting for short/clear instructions on how to save them to my computer with the audio AND video..

I have the December radio interviews converted to MP3 and WAV (with help rom DaveV) but they are HUGE and need to be made smaller..
ELP!!

Dear CHarlady
My most recent posting should solve your youtube saving problem , and it is extremely easy to convert either a full wav file or its equivalent mp3 which will typically be aboot 1/12 the size
Exactly how huge are the mp3and wav files you now have
the size of any audio file is directly proportional to the sampling rate , which for a full uncompressed CD format wav is 1411 Kilobits per second or KBPS or Kilobit per second the initiated where 8 bits =1 byte. so if you convert to an mp3 sampled at 141.1 KBPS it will be exactly 1/10the size of the original wav.However as I stated elsewhere it is a fact that speech only sound files can be as low as 32 KBPS. All you need to convert either the wav or the mp3 to a 32 or even 56 KBPS mp3 is the freeware program MusicMatch Jukebox. now Ya-bloody-hoo bastardised Ywhoo Jukebox
and soon possibly to be Microsoft Gatefold??
for a genuine old fiull issue Musicmatch go to:-
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=mmatch
Ignore their inapplicable apology and right click on the link to:-
MusicMatch Jukebox 10.00.2058 24MB
and download the full version 10
once you have it installed it you will find a "convert" item on its file menu
Piece of cake
Note that the wiki at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_ra...bit_per_second
states quite categorically
"A kilobit per second (kbit/s or kb/s or kbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 bits per second. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to mean 1,024 bits per second, using the binary meaning of the kilo- prefix, though this is incorrect."
which was news to me.
Also
that wiki defines :-
Most digital representations of audio are measured in kbit/s: (These values vary depending on audio data compression schemes)

• 4 kbit/s – minimum achieved for encoding recognizable speech (using special-purpose speech codecs)
• 8 kbit/s – telephone quality
• 32 kbit/s – MW quality
• 96 kbit/s – FM quality
• 192 kbit/s – Nearly CD quality for a file compressed in the MP3 format
• 1,411 kbit/s – CD audio (uncompressed, 16 bit samples × 44.1 kHz × 2 channels)
• And importantly

'b' stands for 'bit' and 'B' stands for 'byte', where one byte refers to 8 bits.
I thought it worth putting that bit of information here for the unitiated amongst you!!