Music by email

[rarll]

What is the easiest way to email a song and what do I need to do it?

[j2buttonsw]

It depends: I would always send a song as an .mp3 file which is the most compressed form of music. It is how you get the .mp3 file which is important. You can "rip" CD audio files using special software such as the following: http://www.free-software-downloads.org/freeware-mp
3/ripping-software.htm or you can convert "home-made" music .wav files using a converter such as Sound Forge. Alternatively, you may have created the song as a midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) file in which case you just send it as-is.

[rarll]

Thanks for that.

[Cactus]

A thing to watch out for is some ISPs limit the space for email messages to 2MB or so. If you try and send an mp3 that is larger than the allowed space, you will get a reply back from the postmaster telling you that the email has bounced. Someone i know asked me to send them an mp3, it was quite a long tune and came out at over 7MB even at only 128kbps. I asked them if their ISP allowed attachments of that size and they said yes. I'm on a 56k dial up connection and it took me nearly 50 minutes to upload it. Later on, i checked my inbox only to discover that i had an incoming email of over 7MB, the postmaster had sent it back complete with attachment!!! Needless to say, harsh words were sent electronically to the person the mp3 was intended for. There is another way you could get the mp3 across without using email. If you're unfortunate enough to have Microsoft Messenger still on your PC (it's the first thing i remove after installing Windows) then you could both start a conversation on there, then send the mp3 across as a "File Transfer" which you will find somewhere under one of the menus.

[rarll]

Thanks, still haven't got round to trying it yet

[AussieGeoff]

If the ISP of the person you wanr to send the music to has a small limit you can use a file splitter to split the file into 2 or more segments and then send each part as an attachment, waiting until you get confirmation from the receiver that they have cleared their mail off the server. There are several splitters (freeware and paid) available, I use Dariolius from http://www.kanastacorp.com, its free ware. You just split the file however you like, fixed number of segments, or segments of a particular size, etc and it will split the file and produce a small program to put the file back together at the other end. You just send the parts and the program as attachments, the person at the other end just puts all the parts and program in a folder and then just double clicks the program icon, they don't have to have dariolius installed. Then they can do what they like with the file. Geoff

[rarll]

thanks a lot for your help.going to try it today.