February 27, 2010
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February 2010 From Songwriting Software Plus at www.SongwritingSoftware.com To
help your songwriting with a focus on the benefits of innovative software,
tools, resources and programs for your songwriting craft and career. |
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This month's issue delves into computer hardware but it's not going to talk about the new iPad from Apple or the latest audio interface from M-Audio - no it's going to talk about saving space on your hard drive. Yes, saving space, because that allows you to get more out of your hard drive and stave off additional hard drive purchases or even may keep you from springing for another computer just yet. And speaking of saving space - let's stop right here and let you get on to the article below to learn all about Ogg. Oh ya, and one quick thing, I'm still sidetracked from my album project but very glad to be continuing to help on the production and writing for Carmen Batres with writer-producer Daniel Avila. So I'll look forward to squeezing in more work on my project down the line and hope that you're getting ahead on yours.
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Ogg Makes More Room For Your Songs Who is Ogg? Who is Ogg? Or more aptly, what is ogg? Ogg is a newer file format, shown as .ogg, that has been gaining in popularity as it allows for high quality recording characteristics to shine through similar to what you find on typical .wav files but at about a tenth of the space. Accordingly by saving your files into a .ogg format you save lots of valuable hard drive space for recording and saving more of your songs. And not only do you save space on your hard drive - when you burn a cd of your songs with .ogg format you save space on the cds and thus can get more songs on a CD of course. A Little Background On Ogg The .ogg file format for audio came from a nonprofit programming group with an initial fully working release of this format in 2002. Over time this format has become more known and popular. There are other .ogg formats that involve video and other types of digital file compression but we're talking about the audio version in this article. Also, if your recording program or one you're considering notes that it allows mix downs to .ogg files they're talking about the audio version - though some music recording programs have video capabilities as well and typically would include the .ogg file type for video compression too. Maybe Now You Don't Need A New Hard Drive Or New Computer Just Yet With the space savings that the .ogg files offer you'll be able to store a lot more of your recordings and song demos. Theoretically you could free up 90% of your hard drive space currently housing a bunch of your .wav file mixes. With more efficient storage of your recordings it allows putting off the time that you'll need to consider adding more storage to your current hard drive or buying a new computer even. What Music Recording Programs Are Using .ogg files? Many music recording programs have capabilities now to work with .ogg files such as importing a mix to be worked on. Check your program specifications as it may be included or if you're looking to invest in a music recording program see what they say about if and how they deal with .ogg files. Here at Songwriting Software Plus our featured high value, low cost recording program Mixcraft is on the leading edge of this issue as they now offer the ability to mix to .ogg files in their new version 5. As such, Mixcraft notes the following on their website: "Option to record directly to high-quality compressed OGG files in Mixcraft 5. OGG files can take up 1/10th of the hard drive space of uncompressed WAV recordings. This is ideal for collaborators exchanging projects over the internet...". Click here for more information on Mixcraft 5. You can now consider yourself fully Ogged and perhaps 90% lighter. |
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For Inspiration And Thought On Your Path To More Songwriting Success:"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." -- Louis L'Amour
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