song size

[Newbie dude]

Okay, I'm looking at some blackfoot and Staind songs on my itunes. For sizes I'mm seeing 3.4 MB, 4.5 MB, that range. I think The largest song I have is 7.7 MB. Now I'm looking at a song a mize recently. It's just a christian singer/songwriter. Acoustic guitar and vocals. It's 19 MB. How do I get my song sizes smaller?

 

[timboZ]

Buy the CD then rip it to a low bitrate.

 

[dgatwood]

Okay, I'm looking at some blackfoot and Staind songs on my itunes. For sizes I'mm seeing 3.4 MB, 4.5 MB, that range. I think The largest song I have is 7.7 MB. Now I'm looking at a song a mize recently. It's just a christian singer/songwriter. Acoustic guitar and vocals. It's 19 MB. How do I get my song sizes smaller?

Those iTunes songs are compressed with lossy compression. Basically,you're trading quality for space.

If your purpose is to save space when recording, don't even think about it. The space savings aren't worth the quality loss.

If your purpose is to be able to email a small file to somebody or to put a small file up on a web site... honestly, the easiest way is to burn the song to a CD, then rip it back in with iTunes....

 

[Sirnothingness]

Is the larger file a wav file? mp3's are generally smaller file sizes.

 

[rayc]

Wav BIG - MP3 SMALL
Wave good - MP3 compressed to death & useful for bus & train trips or sending over the net.
A so so MP3 of a song will be approx 10% of the same song as a wav file.
iTunes et al are interested in speed over quality for that debate do a search of the forum as there've been a few good discussions on the topic.
Christianity hasn't much to do with compression, supression in the past yes, but current data compression - I don't think so.
Cheers
rayC