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To send a song to the Showcase it has to be no larger than MP3 3.0 Meg. As I am recording songs they are all coming out larger than 3.0 Meg. Not hugely larger, but larger enought to prevent sending them. Is there any way by using maybe a different sampling rate to lower the file size or compress it to get it under 3.0?

I use either Audacity or Audio Studio.

Audacity 32K rate
Audio Studio 44.1K rate

These are both default settings, but would setting them to lower rates make the file size be smaller?? Any ideas?

Lon? Knightshow? Anyone else??

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"You know that I sing the Blues and I do not suffer fools. When I'm on that silver mic, it's gonna cut ya, just like a knife"-The SWINGCAT

yep. save the file with a different bitrate, such as 90kbps or so... try going "mono" rather than stereo. sample them at home to see which one you prefer...

MOST people save at 128Kbps, but some are set for a standard 192! The higher the bitrate, the larger the size and LESS the compression!

I use goldwave (www.goldwave.com) to resave files, but I think audacity has a setting in there where you can resave files to other sizes and types!

I'll give it a try!

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"You know that I sing the Blues and I do not suffer fools. When I'm on that silver mic, it's gonna cut ya, just like a knife"-The SWINGCAT

Just switching to mono will fix 90% of the 'almost fits' problems.  In audacity you can join the stereo tracks to create a single mono track before you export to mp3.

I use Adobe Audition for my recordings.  The default setting for saving the "mixdown" is Mp3 128 Kbps, 44100 Hz, Stereo.  However, I changed it to save as Windows PCM .wav instead even though it takes up more space.  The .wav quality always sounds better to me, and I keep them on my hard drive in that format if I ever need them again for whatever.

For submitting to the showcase: Once I've saved it in .wav format, I go into GoldWave and slice off the beginning silence and some of the end if it drags on and on (occasionally fading it out).  Then I "save as" an .mp3... usually I start off with 112 kbps and see what I get.  If it's still over the 3MB limit for submitting, I then use dBpowerAMP and choose an even lower bit rate until it's just under 3MB.  Of course the quality is diminished, but it still doesn't sound THAT bad.

But y'know the easiest way to avoid all that?  Buying a membership.  I'm still a cheapy free member.   I don't sub often enough anyway to need more upload size.

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