Ways to compress a file made in Ableton??

ivanguy · Post by **ivanguy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:01 pm

I rendered an 11-minute track as an .aiff file and it's BIG. I want to email it to a friend ... any ways to get 117 MB down smaller?

I'm on a Mac using OS X 10.3.9, I have Ableton 5.0.3 ... iTunes ... Final Cut Express 2.0 ... any idea what I could use to compress this sucker?

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:07 pm

either convert it to FLAC,

or compress it using RAR.

ivanguy · Post by **ivanguy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:14 pm

Uhhhmmm .... what's RAR and what's FLAC?

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:19 pm

Ever heard of GOOGLE?

ivanguy · Post by **ivanguy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:22 pm

Thanks for your assistance.

And interesting .... after GOOGLING "FLAC", I see it's only available for Windows.

I'm on a Mac.

Are there any "easier" ways to compress things with the programs I already have & mentioned??

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:28 pm

iTunes.

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:44 pm

ivanguy wrote:Thanks for your assistance.

And interesting .... after GOOGLING "FLAC", I see it's only available for Windows.

I'm on a Mac.

Are there any "easier" ways to compress things with the programs I already have & mentioned??

VersionTracker is your friend, search there for FLAC clients for the Mac. They are out there.
Or just right-click on the file and select "Create Archive" - that makes a nice and handy zip file.

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:52 pm

hambone1 wrote:iTunes.

definatly an easy choice

you can change the bit rate to get it smaller when you convert to mp3
(if you need to get it under 10mb to mail it)

i like to use ichat to send files tho

djastroboy · Post by **djastroboy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:00 pm

FLAC format is the best choice for lossless becuase it is now, and will always be, available for all platforms.