Making music files smaller...

[Saitek]

How? ok  I have downloaded file converters, but what music file is the smallest to use? My files I have recorded on my MD recorder are like 10 megs per minute! I can't possibly upload them anywhere. Is there a way out of this?

Cheers

[_526th_Fireman]

Use to play with sounds a bit before. I always used my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 software.

Reducing the quality reduces size of file. I can't remember which format is actually smaller with all the formats that are out there now.

You could experiment by saving a large sound file to different formats  and see for yourself.

Good luck.

[Saitek]

Hmmmm... maybe I have recorded it on too high a setting. I guess I could see if reducing the quality of it helps.
Thanks for the feedback.

[kipman725]

you have to lose quality to get smaller files.  320kbs mp3 sounds ok anything bellow that annoys the kipman.

[LVA157]

I'd say reduce it down to a minimum of 128KBs, anything less and it will lose alot of high and mid band.

And Kipman 320kbs is a bit to high. You won't notice much difference between 180kbs and 300kbs anyway

[Scorpiоn]

Indeed.  320 is excessive.  I prefer 192kbps mp3 or wma.  I will settle for 160 if necessary.  128 is just downright horrible.  The only exception to this is classical music.  Sometimes classical music may call for 320, but I have yet to do so.

Saitek, are you recording in wav?  While the audio will be perfect/near-perfect recording, the filesizes will be painful unless you have terabytes of disk space.

[elite marksman]

Generally speaking, smaller size means worse quality. Anything between 180 and 200 kb/s is decent, below 150 and it sounds bad, above 225 and for most music, you end up taking up more space for diminishing results.

On the hd space side. My freind just topped 2 terabytes of hard drive space. About 1.75 are filled with things you don't want your mother to see...   Not me though. All 140GB of my used space are legal music and games.

[Politically Incorrect]

128 kbs is CD quaility

If it is sounding like crap at 128 you may need to use a different player.

Or clean the wax out of your ears

[kipman725]

"128 kbs is CD quaility"

negative  thats alot worse than CD quality.

"uncompressed audio as stored on a compact disc has a bit rate of 1411.2 kbit/s (16 bits/sample