Posted by Tuten (209.246.93.66) on July 31, 2000 at 23:31:51:
In Reply to: sending samples across the net posted by randy on June 21, 2000 at 11:16:27:
A word of warning regarding the 'creation' of sample .WAV and MP3 files:
Firstly, as far as I can tell, MP3 files are NOT
backward convertible- Meaning, once you convert a .WAV to an mp3 file, you can't change it back.
That's niether here nor there though, the main issue is that your sound card will usually come loaded with audio editing software that will allow you to modify your sound sample almost any way you choose, by fading, adding echo, and so on.
Be careful not to overuse these applicatons, and try to limit the file to at best 10 secs of sound.
The reason for this is that the more you modify a
WAV. file, the larger it becomes. A 3MB file is already too big for a POP3 server to send in most cases, although some ISP's allow you to send larger files than this- But that doesn't mean someone else can receive them. If your sample is
more than 2MB, use the .WAV editing application to splice it down into a smaller file. An entire
song,say, a blues cut, is about 1 MB a minute beginning to end, so you can forget swapping complete tunes. You can use the sound recorder to make very breif samples, but usually by the time you've gotten ready to blow into the mike, the recorder has stopped. This is why you should use whatever audio sampling software you have, then
edit it down. I do suggest adding echo once or twice to enhance what is otherwise a very dry sound, but keep in mind to stay at least 4-6" from your mic, otherwise you'll blowout something awful.By now I've done some pretty good sampling
of myself , and the method seems to work out rather well I think. If anyone else out there has experimented with this, please post some information about your results.