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Hi i have a music clip that is 5mb in size i want to get this down to about 500kb so i can upload it my web page but does anyone know how i can do this,what programme is required etc. Also the file says its 128kb per second what does this mean is it good or should it be less/more and if so how do i go about vhanging this to.

the top question is most important to me though.

i shall also be uploading a lot of files and sounds of various things for you to use when i find how i can reduce the size as no one wants to download 5mb files do they?

im a newbie to all this sound stuff and this website seems the place to hang out so hi all i like whats going on here

Dave

Thanks very much for your very quick reply. i tried audacity but does this not just cut down the length of the file thus reducing it? its a peice of music i have and i wondered if i could compress it somehow without cropping it if you get what i mean (im sure you do) to be honest quality is not a big problem here as i only want the sound to play in the back ground of a 360 degree virtual tour its just a bit of fun really but will no doubt turn very serious when i learn to do things properly.

So can audacity just reduce/compress the file as now ive included the sound in my virtual tour its uped the file size to 6mb and ideally these should be about 2-3 for quick download time

Thanks Dave

Hi, you could also give this a go http://www.sofotex.com/Simple-MP3-Maker-download_L4564.html

PerfectPancakes: Just want to confirm hammerklavie's answer, that if you upload to freesound, you should upload the bigger file, as it has a better quality and is better for editing.

If quality is not too important then a simple mp3 converter is all you need - I use the free winlame software which will reduce the file size to about 10% of the original - that should be about right. You will not notice a drop in quality on ordinary PC speakers. Just google winlame. It has options to reduce quality further if needed. 128kbps is the sample rate - the sound is recorded in 128,000 samples per second - the more the samples the better the quality but it is important to remember that resampling at a lower rate will reduce quality but no amount of resampling can add anything that was not there!

in order to reduce the file size of your ffile down to 500Kb, the quality would literally be reduced to lower than phone quality. I think you might need to re-organise your web-site so you can fit a larger file size in.