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srinathangya

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:26 am
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Hi Guys,

Can anyone tell me how many Bytes makes one track?

Thankyou in advance,
Srinath.
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murmohk1

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:39 am
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Srinath,
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Can anyone tell me how many Bytes makes one track?

It varies from device to device. Generally it is considered as 48 bytes.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:43 am
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stodolas

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:34 pm
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Is this kind of info still useful/used by application programmers? At my shop we don't even consider this kind of stuff until we get to where we are maxing out file sizes.
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