mp3 compression

[jimsmith]

I want to send a large MP3 file via email it 15 meg whats the best/ easiest way to reduce file size without toomuch of a compremise on quality??
Jim

[sarah_louise]

No one wants an email attachment of 15 Mb in fact I dont think your server will accept it.
Put it on a web page and email a link to it.

[vehelpfulguy]

mp3 files are already compressed (with equivalent loss of sound quality) so you will not gain much by trying to compress them any more.

[jimsmith]

Sterling answer sarah lou
Thats just what Ill jolly well do
Ta
Jim

[ACtheTROLL]

depends how good the quality needs to be
you can't compress them (zip or RAR - you need to re-sample instead)

I listen to talking books ... re-sampling a 64Kbps file down to 40Kbps almost halves the file size
I use
http://nch.com.au/switch/index.html

but that's still 7Mb (google allows up to 10Mb)

SLs answer is best