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question about e-mailing a file

Billy K

Billy K

Nov 5, 2009
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North Bay Marin
#1
I have a show we did on my Zoom H2 that came out quite good.These little recorders are excellent. So I converted the track from Wav file to mp3 and it went on my computer to ITunes.I made a"copy" and it is on "my Documents".It is too big to put in email to send off.How can I "split" it in 2 or 3 sections to email off? I also tried zip file.
 
#2
Did you save the show as one mp3 file?

If so, it may be too big for emailing in its present form. You can break the file into separate tracks using free software like Audacity
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) You import or drag the fie into the timeline and then highlight a tune/section and save that section as a file with it's own name. Doing this also lets you edit out the in between song stuff if you don't need it. Just make sure not use the original file name when saving so you don't overwrite that file.

Then you can email them or upload them to a hosting site where people can go and download them.
 
#3
If you have even a simple app like garageband, you can load your WAV file in and edit it down into individual songs, sets or whatever, export those and then create mp3's from that. Most recording software can do simple editing like that.

Optionally you can get a free account on services such as www.dropbox.com or www.yousendit.com that will allow you to upload very large files and then email a link for download rather than attaching an mp3. You'll get 2GB of space free when you sign up.
 
#5
T. B. Player said:
Don't split files -

Sign up for a free account at Box.com or Dropbox.com -

The main difference (besides the amount of space you can get for free) is that you can share any file on Box.com, but you can only share files in your "public" folder on Dropbox.com.

You'll then send a link to your file in an email, and recipients can download it.

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With dropbox you can also set up shared folders that allow you to drag any number of files in and out of, and in the case of audio files, people who you're sharing the folder with can play the files directly from the folder without having to download them if they prefer.
 
#6
One thing to be prepared for if you're going to get into uploading large files to services like T.B. Player and I are talking about. When your ISP brags about how fast their connection speeds are, they're talking about download speeds. You usually have to dig around to find their spec'd upload speeds, because they're often shockingly slow. So depending on your service, you might be surprised at how long it takes to upload 45 minutes or an hours worth of mp3, even though you may be able to download an album's worth pretty quickly. That would get back to your original question about editing, so you can cut out the fat and only upload what's absolutely necessary, or a few tracks at a time. There's nothing more frustrating than uploading one large file only to have it time out 2 minutes before it's finished.
 
#8
Splitting is OK, combining them back is easy
copy part1+part2+part3 file.zip

There are good download managers but they all now seem to suffer from adware.

Use 7zip to highly compress files and split them. They get much smaller.

Drop box is good, so you only to upload once, and people pick it up from drop box.
This saves a lot of your own bandwidth.

I have been "cut off" a couple of times this year from my ISP saying I exceeded bandwidth. They agreed to give me a 20GB site I could share files.

I still split files because it makes it easier for people to download given their own suspect connections.

If you've got blu-ray, or thumbdrives you can fit an incredible amounts on them, and land mail only takes a day or two. Some software I buy, now comes on little USB hard drives. They must buy them in bulk for cheap.
 
#9
seamonkey you maybe right about the mail. I used drop box and the wierdest thing happened.Audio only came out.I don't know why the visual of the movie was lost.But the whole show was on dropbox and I sent it out to everybody.When I have some time this week I will go through the process again.I used a sony Handicam and it has a burn dvd feature which works like this plug cam into usb and the computer ask for a clean or unused dvd and then it burns it for you.No edit available which is too bad.May their is another way but I don't know it.
 
#10
Billy K said:
seamonkey you maybe right about the mail. I used drop box and the wierdest thing happened.Audio only came out.I don't know why the visual of the movie was lost.But the whole show was on dropbox and I sent it out to everybody.When I have some time this week I will go through the process again.I used a sony Handicam and it has a burn dvd feature which works like this plug cam into usb and the computer ask for a clean or unused dvd and then it burns it for you.No edit available which is too bad.May their is another way but I don't know it.
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It doesn't happen very often, but files can get corrupted in the upload/download process. That's another reason to zip files together before uploading. Many don't realize that making files smaller for upload/download is only one advantage, there is also an internal checksum that is created, and if the checksum doesn't match after download, the zipped files won't even unstuff. This assures you nothing got corrupted in the process.
 

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