Subject:Need help with making wav files smaller

Posted by: Bsdrvldy

Date:7/27/2000 4:44:00 PM

Hi,

We are new at this so sorry if this is a dumb question but
I want to put .wavs my husband and I make with Acid Pro on
web sites. Is there a way to make the .wav files smaller?

Thanks,
Sherry

Subject:Re: Need help with making wav files smaller

Reply by: lnetzel

Date:8/1/2000 3:32:00 AM

Sherry wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>We are new at this so sorry if this is a dumb question but
>>I want to put .wavs my husband and I make with Acid Pro on
>>web sites. Is there a way to make the .wav files smaller?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Sherry


Nope, sorry, *.wav (Wavefiles) can not be compresses in the range you
want it to be to put them up on the web. What you can do is... to
convert them to another format... and it depends a little bit on what
kidn of sounnd you're recording, Voice or music.. but I asume you
have heared about mp3 files.. they are about 12 times less the size
of a wave and it still sound good. mp3 is for some reason mostly used
for music and for voice it's better to convert the *.wav files into
realmedia *.rm which compress the files a lot too.

So I guess you want to know how to convert the files into these
formats. Boths SoundForge and Acid can "Save as" these files.. but it
some cases you need to intall a plug in to to this.

The best program for homeuser to compress files into mp3 is a
software named Xing Audiocatalyst, For the realmedia files you can
read more about it on www.realmedia.com

more questions?

/Lars