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Topic: wav file size help needed... - (Read 3 times)
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Sue Q
Junior Member  From:Camden, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 3
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I'm building a web site for a singing group. I have a cd of song samples that I grabbed (with audiograbber)to .cdg + .wav files to put on the web site. It worked fine, and the .wav files work on my desktop version of the site, no problem. However, I went to upload the .wav samples for the site, and they were only uploading at 20% per hour... never has it gone so slowly for other .wav files from the web. Is this the only way, or am I doing something wrong? The .wavs are each only about 1 minute long. I am new, obviously. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I need to make these a lot smaller if possible.
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Phoenix42
Member  From:Boston, MA but an ex-paddy
Registered: Oct 2000
Posts: 590
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A wave file is about 10megs per minute, ie quite big. You need to encode it to MP3 or some other compressed autio format which will shrink the file size down to 1meg per minute - this will be alot quicke for you to upload, and alot quicker for your audiance to download.
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Sue Q
Junior Member From:Camden, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 3
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Thank you, Phoenix42! I understand Lame (I think it is) is a good program for doing this, yes?
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NeoRenegade
MP3 Addict From:Canada, eh?
Registered: Oct 2001
Posts: 1049
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Yes.To achieve roughly 1MB per minute, you ought to encode to 128kbps. I recommend Lame 3.90.3 (executable version), using this commandline:
%s %d --alt-preset standard
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Sue Q
Junior Member From:Camden, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 3
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Okay, thanks. I will look into that. Here is what I tried all ready...I put the Lame-DLL v. 1.32 file into the Audiograbber and just grabbed the .wav files to .mp3 files. It worked fine, and a 5.03MB .wav file went to a 468KB .mp3 file. I assumed that was correct. Would your way be even better still? Sorry, I am so green. Thanks NeoRenegade.
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posted 26 February 2004 03:31 
posted 26 February 2004 10:42