Making my audio files into MP3 or some other file format I can upload to the net?!

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Member Since: Jul 22, 2002

I was trying to email some tracks to a buddy but I was told the audio file is to big. Ive heard that if you convert them to MP3 or some other format it wont sound the same. Is this true? How bad will it effect it?

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


Jul 27, 2002 08:47 pm

mp3 is great because it is small, but the quality does suffer. People say it is still CD quality, but they lie. Still, mp3 encoding does cut the file size down to about 10% of it's original size, but it is sprobably only a 40-50% quality loss, so all in all it's still a good bargain.

In the "Music on the Internet" section of our recording tips there is an article about mp3 encoding, you should read that. It will give you a little insight into mp3 and the encoding of it.

Member
Since: Jul 14, 2002


Jul 28, 2002 06:01 pm

hey skandal...you need to update to cakewalk xl and get cool pro 2.0...with cool pro 2.0 you can tighten up your wave and save as a mp3...cool pro makes great mp3s...if your mp3s sound weak use cool pro 2.0 and youll be happy...or let me make them for you...

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002


Jul 28, 2002 10:08 pm

The main area of loss in encoding to mp3 is the highest and lowest end's of the tone's. If you use a good mp3 player to play them back, you cna brign back some of the lost low and high end, but not all of it. Otherwise it is a pretty good format to use for those purpose's.

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