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03-15-2012, 09:09 AM
|  | He's Sumthin, Alright.. | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Bucks County, PA | |  Ok, so WAV files are HUGE. I can't email. HELP!!
In essence, I suck. 
I have the option to record in either WAV format or MP3 format with my recorder, and since it said how great WAV was, stupid me recorded our practice in WAV. Great!  Or so I thought.
I edited, cut, and was all ready to go. I had the headphones on, I felt like Mutt Lange! Now to email these gems.
Soooo.. each file is a gazzzzillion MB's and I can't email, even in compressed file.  
So here is where I am:
1) Future practices will be recorded in MP3. Lesson learned.
2) How in the hell to I send these MONSTER files?? Can I change on the fly from WAV to MP3? I am not mastering an album here, just sending misc crap from practice. Is there a free tool that can assist? Simpel "save as"?
As always, someone else's expertise and knowledge is greatly appreciated. 
DB
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03-15-2012, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA, Washington | | | There are a lot of free file converters you can get online, I think Audacity and Mixcraft can record in and change files to MP3, FLAC, and WAV. I prefer FLAC personally, WAV files are just too big for me with my limited hard-drive space. Also you can compress the files in a WinRAR archive to save space. |
03-15-2012, 09:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Download Audacity (free).
Open file.
Convert to MP3.
Save.
Email.
You will probably have to make individual files of each number rather one file of the practice. A long recording will be too big for email even in MP3.
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03-15-2012, 09:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Use a file transfer service. wetransfer.com is one I have good experiences with. 2GB for free. |
03-15-2012, 09:21 AM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | +1 to Audacity. Also you can upload the MP3s to a file hosting service like Soundcloud (120 minutes free) and just send the link via email. |
03-15-2012, 09:23 AM
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Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: SE Virginia via NYC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim  Download Audacity (free).
Open file.
Convert to MP3.
Save.
Email.
You will probably have to make individual files of each number rather one file of the practice. A long recording will be too big for email even in MP3. | Quick note, you will have to also download, and install, the LAME.dll (found on the Audacity site) for Audacity as it is not included in the Audacity install file.
As for editing from a huge single file, just highlight the area you want and export selection to mp3. It will just convert that section.
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03-15-2012, 09:42 AM
| | He's Sumthin, Alright.. | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Bucks County, PA | | | I did break up into various files by stopping and then starting again, thus creating a new file. But each file is like 41,813 KB's anther is over 36K KB's, 13,000, etc. Eeeee.
I have Wavelab LE - I would have to imagine that this conversion tool is there as well.. One would think!
I just have in the office on a mini drive and figured I would fiddle with here.
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03-15-2012, 09:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | | The full version of Wavelab does it no problem, don't know about LE though. I often use Foobar 2000, which is free, ultra easy, and fast. |
03-15-2012, 09:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Woburn, MA | | | Cloud drive - Ubuntuone or Dropbox
Another option would be to use a cloud drive to upload the file to the cloud and sending out the link to the cloud. UbuntuOne would be the cheapest - you get 5 GB for free.
I am running Ubuntu so this is for me a drag-and drop in a folder. There is also Windows integration, but i don't know how good it is.
Dropbox is another possibility.
Advantage is that you retain the high quality of wav files |
03-15-2012, 10:03 AM
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03-15-2012, 10:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | You're cool. You really should (imho) do all the post production in .wav. It's more info and gets better results sonically.
You just left out the squash it down afterwards part. How far you squash it depends on how you want to use or move it around. There's tons of free stuff out there for that. Go get ya some!
Your media player doesn't allow you to rip and convert a .wav?
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03-15-2012, 11:19 AM
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Breaks the files up into parts for separate emails.
Try 7zip to compress them (it's not audio compression)
burn it on a CD or thumb drive and mail it - around here 1 to 2 days top to arrive.
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03-15-2012, 11:31 AM
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03-15-2012, 11:37 AM
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If you have iTunes, it will convert to AAC when importing, if you check the box. AAC > MP3.
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03-15-2012, 11:41 AM
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03-15-2012, 11:45 AM
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03-15-2012, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by DanBass In essence, I suck.
I have the option to record in either WAV format or MP3 format with my recorder, and since it said how great WAV was, stupid me recorded our practice in WAV. Great! Or so I thought.
I edited, cut, and was all ready to go. I had the headphones on, I felt like Mutt Lange! Now to email these gems.
Soooo.. each file is a gazzzzillion MB's and I can't email, even in compressed file.
So here is where I am:
1) Future practices will be recorded in MP3. Lesson learned.
2) How in the hell to I send these MONSTER files?? Can I change on the fly from WAV to MP3? I am not mastering an album here, just sending misc crap from practice. Is there a free tool that can assist? Simpel "save as"?
As always, someone else's expertise and knowledge is greatly appreciated.
DB | Try CDex to convert between formats. Free. Lots of options available.
You can use, for free, Audacity as a basic editor to load your wav and select and chop into pieces.
CDex will do that for you too, but you have to specify the time to start and stop.
Then use Dropbox to share the files.
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03-15-2012, 11:54 AM
| | He's Sumthin, Alright.. | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Bucks County, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve You're cool. You really should (imho) do all the post production in .wav. It's more info and gets better results sonically.
You just left out the squash it down afterwards part. How far you squash it depends on how you want to use or move it around. There's tons of free stuff out there for that. Go get ya some!
Your media player doesn't allow you to rip and convert a .wav?
odd | Assume it does.. Also assume it's me. LOL
I will check WaveLab, I am sure it does! That said, I found Koyote Soft Mp3 converter - it was free, is pretty cool, and better yet, it actually worked. 
Since recording in WAV is preferred, and I found this tool, and I gather it MUST be somewhere on the WaveLab platform, I should be good. Incidentally, you guys all ROCK. I really appreciate all of everyone's insight and info.
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03-15-2012, 12:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DanBass
Since recording in WAV is preferred, and I found this tool, and I gather it MUST be somewhere on the WaveLab platform, I should be good.
| My version of Wavelab is on my old computer, which is not hooked up at the moment. IIRC, you can do a "render as" and pick MP3. I think there are at least one or two other ways to get there too though. |
03-15-2012, 12:09 PM
| | He's Sumthin, Alright.. | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Bucks County, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Passinwind My version of Wavelab is on my old computer, which is not hooked up at the moment. IIRC, you can do a "render as" and pick MP3. I think there are at least one or two other ways to get there too though. | Awesome, I will look for that!
Thanks again.
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