[game_preservation] Archivist's Burden

[Mike Melanson]

Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

> When/if you do decide to preserve the audio separately, the 

> International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

> recommends WAV or BWF. Regardless of format, they and ARSC recommend a 

> sampling rate of at least 96 kHz with 24 bit resolution.


If you're digitizing from an analog source, 96 kHz/24-bit might be 
warranted. But this is just redbook CD audio which is already digital 
and is natively 44.1 kHz/16-bit stereo. That's what I would compress from.

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     -Mike Melanson