E-mailing music....

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A NOVICE QUESTION....

Sometimes when jamming with friends we will come up with an idea for a track.

None of the other guy's have recording equipment, so I will record a few rough tracks alone. I then want to "e-mail" the tracks to my friends but even though I have followed the instructions in the GT Pro manual thay wont "send" to their address. I say they wont send.... they start to go but take so long that I abandon them.

I have recently upgraded my p.c. On my old system I could send tracks easily.... but I cant remember how I used to do it.

I am using Win XP Pro and GT Pro software.
 
Wish Me Luck As You WAV Me Goodbye...

Yo Frog Dude,

Are you sending a WAV file? If so, they are rather on the large side as in whoppingly humongous. Convert the file to MP3 and send that. It can be converted back to WAV at the other end.

You may also find that your ISP has a maximum file size limitation (mine's 3MB). So you could use a file-splitting utility if necessary.

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BluesMeister
 
I was going to suggest the same thing.....

Convert the WAV. or AIFF. file into an MP3. file, then e-mail the music. ;)
 
You have to understand how the Internet and it's email systems work.... many, many servers have limits set on how large an email passing through it can be, and your email can go through many servers before it reaches its destination. Many of the email servers have a 2Mb limit to keep from getting swamped.

For sending the WAVs, you're better off burning a CD and sending it FedEx (sending a CD by 3-day regular mail is only $1.06 at the moment, too.)

To pass clips or MP3's, you should consider buying some webspace ($100 a year or less), then FTPing it up to where your buddy can then download it.

Remember that when you MP3 a file, the quality goes down (it's a lossy compression format that throws out a lot of frequencies) and would not always be useable in a finished product.....
 
Download AIM if you haven't already, then send the large files, waves included through instant messanger
 
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