It's fairly easy to create audio products such as interviews, recorded conferences, tutorials, etc. Practically anyone with a microphone or headset can create the audio files.
The problem you run into is file size. Most audio content of any length ends up being a large file in raw format. Not only does it take too long to download, it also uses up valuable bandwidth in your hosting account - sometimes resulting in substantial fee's.
I set out to find a solution to this, and I found one...
For voice you can take it down to 24bit with no noticeable loss in quality on ordinary voice presentations.
Here is a simple way to compress mp3 files so they are optimized and compressed in just one click:
www.totalwebaudio.com/mp3tweak.zip
1. Install the program
2. Open the program
3. load the mp3 file
4. Click convert
Presto.
Credit for this solution goes to Josh Anderson of Total Web Audio, who was kind enough to share these details with me in a recent thread at the Warrior Forum.
Best,
About Lynn Terry
This will come in handy for some of my upcoming audio projects. Thanks Lynn.
Sweet. I just finished an interview with Joe Ratliff and he sent me the MP3 file for editing. Now, instead of whipping out Audacity to play around with, I can just download the software. 🙂
Thanks Lynn.
Is the software compatible in windows vista? thanks =)
No it does not work with vista OS it freezes once you press on convert
worked on vista 64 for me
I'm not sure. You will probably just have to try it and see...
It would be nice if you add 64 bit Rate in conversion. 🙂
worked like a charm and saved me some critical file size!
Hi,
Just Today (i.e. 20 Sept 2008 ) I found the tool what i am looking for. I came this page through google search by "mp3 compress" key word . And it is so nice.
Thank you.
Most welcome 😉 Glad you found it helpful!
Thanks! really big help!
Thanks a lot. what a good work
actually there's a change in quality of the sound.. but its a really big help and easy to use.. ^_^
this worked! thanks!
I have vista, I downloaded the program , press convert and nothing happens. Any one else had this?
Really amazing from 3.5 mb to 436 kb , really it save me more critical size.
Thanks
Is the software compatible with Mac?
I'm honestly not sure. Anyone else know?
pc users can also try mp3resizer : http://www.skyshape.com/download/mp3resizersetup.exe
Hi Lynn,
Do you know if this program will run on Macs?
Awesome referral btw...
FayeC
I found this tool very useful
Thanks for making this available, good one
Appreciate you
To LIam
put both files MP3Tweak.exe & lame.dll in the same folder
After you have compressed it can you then upload it to a host and then uncompress it?
Thanks! This worked fabulously for reducing my MP3s by about 75%!
Thanks for the software. It's nice and I can enjoy more music in my mobile phone..
Thanks!
It works good,but audio quality is no that good.
It reduces size of 80%,amazing.
But try to include 64 bit rate.
Thank you, it helped me to reduce a file over 10mb to 4mb.
Lynn,
This post was a life saver! Thank you thankyou!
i have the same problem as LIam, nothing happens after converting
i was able to reduce 6,3445MB to 588KB
Roxio Creator 10 (and 11) can convert many batch files under the audio option to lower or higher quality mp3, where lower means more compressed it terms of bits.
OMG! You just saved me $5,000 a month in hosting fees!!!!! THANK YOU
This programme is very good! I compressed my file from about 4 MB to less than 1 MB. It is way better than those lame compressors found online. Thank you so much Josh!
Whenever I click convert after uploading the song it just blinks and does not fully compress my song. Any suggestions?
Did the trick! Thanks!
Works great and saves space!!
This is a great software just i magine compressing and audio file from 323MB to 24.4MB with all quality the same great software indeed. Anyway is it limited to a number of audios it can convert or it is unlimited?
Thanks a lot.