Help Shrinking song size

[taurus]

Ok I have done some recording and transfered the song to a CD and then to a PC. It was ripped in WMP and is listed as a MP3 but it is huge.......I can only email someing smaller then 5 MBs and its 14.2 MBs. How do I shrink this file to send in email????? Did I do something wrong? Thank you in advance.

 

[Farview]

You need to adjust the bitrate down to make the file smaller. I'm not sure how to do this in WMP, but I'm sure it's in preferences.

 

[ErichS]

Sounds like you may have created the MP3 with a high bitrate
(e.g. 320kbs). See if your MP3 conversion program has a lower bitrate setting like 256 or 128kbs

edit: Farview beat me to it

 

[taurus]

Thanx guys thats exzactly what I did (320kbs) so now I just need to figure out how to change that

 

[danny.guitar]

It's in Windows Media Player's preferences in the "Ripping" tab.

 

[Sinistah]

yeah you gotta reduce the bitrate, i used to have that problem myself.....