Week 8 Audio reflections

1. Funbrain uses many of the common sonifications. Its pretty easy to understand what their audio is trying to communicate. I played the game with the bee and the wind. I had to control the bee (which made a buzzing sound when I moved it), move the bee towards the cloud (which made a wind blowing noise that blew the dandelions), and drop a number into a flower (which made a "dwoop" sound).

2. The .wav file was much bigger than the .mp3 and it didn't sound much better. Maybe its just me. I would want to use stereo when I am recording two different sounds at once and have the listeners hear two different sounds like singing and playing an instrument.

3. I took a wave file and converted it to mp3 twice, once at 128kbs and once at 320 kbs. I could tell a little difference in the quality, but the 128kbs took up only 2.81 mb of space and the 320 took up 7.02 mb.

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5. I'm not sure that audio is going to help with my grant unless I show a video and want to save space by lowering my video/audio quality.