Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?

Subject: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 03:57 PM

I have a WAV file of a song I want played on Mudcat Radio. How do I get it to Max? Also, the file is 3 megs--too large to attach to an e-mail. How can I do it?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 03:59 PM

Download REalProducer and convert it. That's what I did and it was easy and fast. See the very recent thread about sending files or music over the internet. I'll see if I can find it and refresh it for you.

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 04:04 PM

Or open an account at mydocsonline.com or xfile,com -- they're free and give you 20 or so Megs of online storage which you can make public and direct him to download from.

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 04:37 PM

Thanks folks, I'll do that, but still--how do I get in touch with Max? I can't seem to find his email address. And is his email address indeed where you send such files?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 04:38 PM

[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 04:47 PM

Thanks, Amos!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Paul G.
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 06:47 PM

Mbo --

Last one I sent was an MP3 file of about 5mb. Perhaps my mail program can manage larger files...I sent it to [e-mail] and Max got it just fine...can't wait to hear your stuff!

Paul

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Max
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 06:50 PM

If you can't get it to me via email, I will make other arrangements. Send me a personal message if you have any problems.

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:35 PM

Mbo - There are loads of freeware progs which will allow you to slice up a file of any size into convenient chunks e.g. to fit on floppies or to send via email. The one I use is Master Splitter which won some shareware awards a couple of years ago, but there are many more good ones I believe. I haven't used it but Win 95 has a Slicer function which does something similar. From memory it is available via a right click on File in Windows Explorer. The important aspect is to be able to send a teensy batch file (along with the carved up pieces) to allow the receiver to reconstitute the original file without the receiver needing the original software slicing program. Master Splitter does this just fine! All the best, John

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 10:41 PM

That xfile link of Amos just got me Scully and Mulder and that.

I'm still looking for some source of information, on line or even in print, geared to my limited computer abilities, and my requirements which would help me make use of the various useful free programs I've amassed, for my purposes.

Which are basically to enable my own taped songs (and those of people I know) to be accessible through blue clickies on my website, with "streaming". And also to edit songs from tapes with a view to getting them onto a CD.

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 08:07 PM

Dear M of H, you've raised a couple of issues here which no one else has been able to help with to date. You may be better off starting a new thread, but in tne mean time I'll help with the streaming part of your question as best I can.

If I take your request literally, here's how I would summarise it. You have some fantastic songs on tape which you would like to share with the world on your own Web site. You don't have bags of room on your site, but would like to cram as many songs on as possible. Storing raw sound files (Wave aka .WAV files) are out of the question because they're just too big - you might get one song recorded in mono into a 5 Meg file. So you need some way of compressing the .WAV files to smaller sizes. MP3 is one way to go but users still need specialist MP3 players (most of them now free, but not installed as a default on the vast population of PC's). Real Audio files lack the fidelity of near CD quality MP3 files, but are smaller, can be played on the more recent standard Media Player supplied with Windows (or can be obtained freely) and the Real Audio encoders are easy to use and (mostly) free. For listeners who don't have the wherewithal to download files, save them to disc and then retrieve them the Real Audio files can be played in real time - this can be called streaming (although I believe that this term is more often associated with live broadcasts). In any event the listener has the opportunity to store the Real Audio file and replay it later if so desired. Most importantly you are happy to accept that your listeners will mostly hear sound quality alin to what you may hear over a standard telephone service - or a bit better.

If this is a description of your needs I'll give you the simple HOW TO's in a separate messgae. Regards, John

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Willie-O
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 08:18 PM

The odd thing about MP3's is that most of the software is--well they don't call them CD RIPPERS for nothing--they generally assume you are copying off of a CD. If you're not, there's not as many to choose from. I've been using Bladeenc, which is nice and small and efficient--it is a DOS based program and you actually type a command line to use it, just like old times...its good old freeware and available from mp3.com and lots of other places.

Bladeenc and other mp3 encoders, if they're encoding from a WAV file, require a file of the proper fidelity, at least 22 meg/side (megabitz? hell, I don't know. But it rejected some of my WAVs that were the wrong sampling rate.)

W-O

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 05:31 PM

Your right John of Brisbane (this is sounding like something out of a Shakespeare play, writes McGrath of Harlow!) - the request is to be taken literally.

You summarise my requirements very neatly. And I've taken your advice, and started a new thread about thisPutting songs on a website. Help me!, and I hope to meet you again there.

Space isn't so much the problem, since free webspace is easy enough to obtain - though it is of course more convenient to kep everything on the same site. But making it possible for people to start hearing the song whiloe it's being downloaded is. (I get fed up with downloaded medium to big files of music only to find I don't like them - so I tend only to use clickies where I can hear what I'm getting.)

(The player I find most handy, incidentally is Winamp, which is free and not that big to download, and available on lots of free CDRoms given away with computer magazines such as .net.)

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 05:50 PM

I still have 4 or 5 sent to me by Jenellen that are well worth hearing and I triedto help ot by sending - problem I had was there was 20mb+ in total and (my email to Max asking if he could take that voume was not answered. If anybody else wants to try to send to Max please contact me at [e-mail] and I will pass the files on...

Jon

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 05:56 PM

To explain, elles email (hotmail I think) does not allow sending of the file sizes in question - I agreed to accept them via ICQ send but could not manage to establish contact with Mak to find ot if he wanted one or all of them..

Jon

Subject: RE: Help! How Do I Send Sound Files To Max?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:13 PM

While Winamp is great for playing MP3 files (and wav files too), for recording purposes Goldwave - http://www.goldwave.com/release.html is pretty good, and it allows you to compress files down from say 11Mb to around 200Kb, which is small enough to send by email. Actually it's brilliant and I am still just beginning to learn to use it, adn I am very grateful to Mmario for putting me on to it.

Buit it doesn't solve me opther problems, which are currently =being addressed on the