The Penguin needs some technical sound clip resizing advice!

[wetcamelfood]

Originally Posted by tommer

try encoding to .wma instead of .mp3's.

OK, what software/programs do you recommend for this? MMJ, Goldwave, Razorlame & HP RecordNow (which are the ones I have) don't have the option for WMA for converting files (I could list the file types they do have availbale here but that seems pointless if I really need to try WMA), so let me know and then I'll give it a try, thanks tommer.

John

[tommer]

i highly recommend Easy CD-DA Extractor/Converter. you can also send me the files and i'll convert them for you.

[face of glass]

Originally Posted by wetcamelfood

OK, what software/programs do you recommend for this?

John, here's one program to solve most of those converting problems: http://www.dbpoweramp.com. You will have to download specific codecs for it, the program itself only comes with a handful. But the Windows Media Audio codec is available for download there too: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm.

[face of glass]

John, also note that this link (http://www.audiohub.org/get/fa/sa.htm) says that less mp3 compression doesn't necessarily mean that the sound quality is better than that in the file with larger compression. In fact, they're roughly comparable in sound quality, that's at least the case with the higher bitrate mp3s. If we're speaking of bitrate as small as 32 then we've got some problems. I personally think it would be better to use 64, at least, that's usually pretty listenable. But if you can't get the files any smaller with no loss in audio quality then I suggest that you put in only 3-4 of them per a single discography entry, the ones that you think are the most representative of the albums. It's better than posting all of them and having bandwidth problems for most of the time.

I appreciate your efforts though, since I'm far from having listened to all the stuff in the discography.

[wetcamelfood]

Thanks Gaius & Tommer, I'll give these things a try tomorrow and report back progress here.

john

[wetcamelfood]

OK, I've done it with one. Now, when I attach it to an e mail, it says 990k for the size and when I mouse over the file in the bubble it says 746 KB and I'm sure the default was 64kbps, might have even been 48, but it wasn't bigger than 64 anyways.

So I think this boils down to what jwys_soapbox had said (which I noted above) how Marty is seening the files on his end as a different size. Please post here if anyone can elaborate on this angle as I'm completely lost on this and I'd like to be prepared on the topic when I go back to Marty about this (as I won't be in contact with him unti Thursday so I'd hope to have this topic fuly researched by then. I'd post the test clip I did here but I doubt it would fit as I know pics here don't work unless they're pretty small. Thanks in advance.

John

[wetcamelfood]

OK well the file was even bigger on Marty's end, seven hundred something K so whatever, just giving this thread a bump in the hopes someone can help out here as we're rather stuck on this now and we really hope we can work it out since it'd be such a great feature for the discography.

Please do chime in (or feel free to e mail or PM me) if you can help in any way on this, thanks in advamce.

John