black_matter Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 So the score is...I've written some tracks in Cubase LE. I've made an audio mixdown and I'm happy with the song, it's just that it's 26mb as a wav file. How do I make the file smaller and more easy to send to friends and via e-mail etc?Any help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Have you tried those file altering systems, converting it to an mp3 file instead of a .WAV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Deathnail Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Do a google search for a free WAV to MP3 converter. That'll help bring the size down a notch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free tibet Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorderfree & easy to use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooms Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 ...or just use itunes?Import it into your iTunes library and it'll prompt you to convert it to .mp3 (i think .aac is the default so make sure you've set .mp3 as your default in iTunes first)bish bash bosh .wav to .mp3 with very little extra effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kernel Loaf Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 ...or just use itunes?Import it into your iTunes library and it'll prompt you to convert it to .mp3 (i think .aac is the default so make sure you've set .mp3 as your default in iTunes first)bish bash bosh .wav to .mp3 with very little extra effort.This is usually not recommended, because you cannot specify the bit rate and the frequency of the converted MP3. As free tibet said, use Audacity and compress to MP3 with 44.1 KHz and 320 kbps for the best quality. It will be around 10-15MB depending on the length of the recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooms Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 my understanding was not to preserve AWESOME quality but to make it easier for sharing with friends via email etc.a 10-15MB file is not really better than a 30MB file for that purpose.I'm not saying you should use a .mp3 file converted that way to burn on to a cd you want to sell. For a CD just use your WAVs! But for the purposes of emailing around to your mates and even for uploading to internet sites my way is fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 It goes without saying that you should keep your original WAV file - whatever you convert a copy of it into and whatever you use to do so.Furthermore - 128kbps is perfectly adequate for casual listening and will compress much better - approx 1MB a minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooms Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 agreed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kernel Loaf Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 my understanding was not to preserve AWESOME quality but to make it easier for sharing with friends via email etc.a 10-15MB file is not really better than a 30MB file for that purpose.I'm not saying you should use a .mp3 file converted that way to burn on to a cd you want to sell. For a CD just use your WAVs! But for the purposes of emailing around to your mates and even for uploading to internet sites my way is fine.10-15MB is fuck all these days - a file like that would send over MSN in about 10 minutes max over a 8Mbit broadband connection. Surely you would want the song to sound as good as possible after compressing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 10-15MB is fuck all these days - a file like that would send over MSN in about 10 minutes max over a 8Mbit broadband connection. Surely you would want the song to sound as good as possible after compressing it?try it yourself, there is very very little difference unless your listening to it on a very good stereo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooms Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 yeah totally, whats the point? (also I was considering that a lot of email clients have 10MB limits on attachments)just shrink it down to a 128 kbps .mp3 to 2-4MB approx depending on length.unless you're listening to it on very good speakers like your studio monitors there's little point.As already said, i'm not suggesting this file format to be used on any kind of release. But it's more than good enough to send around to your mates and have on your iPod etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kernel Loaf Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 try it yourself, there is very very little difference unless your listening to it on a very good stereo.I have - it is very very noticible through a set of z-5500s, which is a very very very good stereo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatHand Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Have you tried making an audio mixdown but selecting MP3 instead of WAV. This would also be an option in future. You can specify whatever quality you like.Audacity is a very useful tool even if you don't use it for the purpose metioned in your thread ... lots of things you can do with it so I recommend you download it regardless of what is best for converting wav to mp3. It's free too. DONE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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