Question re copying cassette tapes

[William J Poser]

I agree with Neskie that worrying about space is mostly a throwback to
earlier times when much less storage was available, and I say this
when on my more serious rant about the evils of lossy compression. As
he says, if  you're going to compress, use FLAC (or another lossless
method, though FLAC is my personal favorite), not MP3 or some other
lossy technique. At the same time, if you're doing things like editing
large recordings, a lower sampling rate and/or fewer channels can reduce
memory (primary memory, not disk space) and processing requirements
enough to make it possible to edit recordings that would otherwise be
too large or to obtain much greater responsiveness from what would
otherwise be a sluggish machine.

Bill