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bassmama
04-16-2007, 01:08 PM
I have MP3's of ME!!!

however they are too big to upload to myspace do you have any suggestions of how to resize them to a lower quality? I can't figure out how to do it!
ModmanQ6
04-16-2007, 01:19 PM
If you have the original .wav files, you can set the sample rate of the mp3 in the settings before you process it. You probably want to set it for 128 for the best sound/size ratio...
Croissant Seven
04-16-2007, 01:26 PM
Can you even manipulate mp3's? I haven't figured it out yet myself...
This is a pain in my ass because I'd like to take some of our better rehearsal recordings and cut the jibber jabber off the ends of them. I don't want to hand out cd's at shows with us talking at the end of the songs. We record direct to CD...
C7
Jazz Ad
04-16-2007, 01:27 PM
Any audio editing program will do it very easily.
Audacity, Kristal, Goldwave...
NotFSI
04-16-2007, 01:30 PM
Hootech (http://www.newfreedownloads.com/MP3-Audio/Rippers-Encoders/HooTech-WAV-MP3-Converter.html) should do it. I do mine in Wavelab.
NotFSI
04-16-2007, 01:31 PM
Can you even manipulate mp3's? I haven't figured it out yet myself...
This is a pain in my ass because I'd like to take some of our better rehearsal recordings and cut the jibber jabber off the ends of them. I don't want to hand out cd's at shows with us talking at the end of the songs. We record direct to CD...
C7

Yeah, you can do that in audio editing software like Wavelab
Croissant Seven
04-16-2007, 02:09 PM
Audacity does work...maybe it's time for me to leave Cool Edit in the 90's already.:D
I didn't think you could open mp3's in editor software...
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lug
04-16-2007, 02:13 PM
I just save 1/2 of my playing. This reduces the size by half.
ModmanQ6
04-16-2007, 03:03 PM
I use SoundForge, but it's not free....
bassesofalessergod
04-16-2007, 03:22 PM
Audacity does work...maybe it's time for me to leave Cool Edit in the 90's already.:D
I didn't think you could open mp3's in editor software...
C7

you can do it in CEP2
bassmama
04-16-2007, 03:39 PM
OK i got two of them
http://www.myspace.com/constantpang
these are a few years old - they were on a 4-track cassette recorder and I and a friend make them into mp3s for me.
steveydevey
04-16-2007, 04:29 PM
you can do it in CEP2
Audition will also deal with them (adobe bought CEP long ago).

You're not editing the MP3, it converts it to real audio data again, and will save it as whatever you like (including back to MP3).

If you have the original wav, it would be better to edit this though, just to get around as many conversions.