e-mailing music files

[CMM]

I am fairly new to computer recording. Using Cakewalk ProAudio 9. What me and my friend want to do is be able to e-mail the song files that we are working on back and forth to each other. I use AOL w/DSL for e-mail and it says I cannot upload files larger than 16MB. I tried to zip the .bun files, but it does not compress the file very much at all.

Does anyone know a way to get around the size requirement at AOL, or a way to shrink the files so they can be e-mailed. Thanks for any help you can offer.

CMM

 

[Queue]

Go to a virtual studio type setup like Collaboration Central. You and your bud upload and download files from their server. No email or AOL issues.

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-if you can't figure it out, just ask in the forums over there, Hux, Sultan, and many other nice folks (including myself) there will help you.

 

[Queue]

You can also try converting the .wav's to mp3's and send them that way. That's becoming the standard practice for working things out, then transfer the .wav's for final mix.

Don't know much about Cakewalk, but I'd imagine you could do that from within Cake. Try the cakewalk forum.

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[CMM]

So I would convert each track (wave file?) to MP3 and then send each track (as an MP3) to him? If so, would he then have to change each MP3 file back to a wave file and then copy into the recording software.

Sorry I am so dense when it comes to this stuff. Thanks for the reply.

 

[jgourd]

Use WinRar and make a multi file archive. Send each file as a seperate email and the recipient will re-assemble them.

This is what the wareze guys do all the time.

 

[Queue]

Wav to mp3 (transfer occurs here) then back to wav, yes that's it.

Some packages (Vegas) you can just plop the mp3 into the multitracking screen (I think it converts it to a wav in the background on the sly), saving you at least one conversion.

jgourd's suggestion is a good way to avoid attachment filesize limitations.

NOTES:
MP3 is a lossy format (you lose some information when you encode and then decode). It is good to get things going, but before the final mix you might want to try using Monkey's Audio Compression or some other lossless compression, or NO compression. (We're talking FILE compression not SOUND compression (compressor/limiter)).