changing a file from mono to stereo

[Kerry Hoath]

Simply sample the original files in mono. This will record the left chanel
only and you will end up with a file that when played comes
out center chanel because it is mono.
The harder way of doing this is to merge the stereo into mono
wiht sox:
sox stereofile.wav -c1 monofile.wav
the avg affect is assumed.
A mono recording will play out _both_ speakers, but a
stereo recording of a left-chanel only source will only come out left
chanel.
Sampling in mono halves the bandwidth required when encoding
and a mono ogg stream at 44100 samples per second 16-bit
with default quality settings avarages around 64kbps. the equivalent
stereo stream averages 128kbits.

Regards, Kerry.
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:47:59PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Ok, so the question still remains.
> I have mono voice cassette recordings. I would like the results of my wav or ogg
> files to come out of both speakers. I can certainly achieve this effect by using
> certain mixer settings. But is there anything I can do in the original recording
> of the casettes to files or in converting them after the wav files are made so
> that the sound will come from both speakers when they are played without having
> to change mixer settings?
> 
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