Question about rendering

Bill_Lee · Post by **Bill_Lee** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:19 pm

So, i made a mixtape on live. I recorded the whole thing with ableton's recording function, then rendered it as a WAV file. when i listen to it on windows media player, it sounds great. the problem is that its almost 1.5g and it seems to be an odd kind of wave file-- i can't find a program that will compress it. i don't have any cdr's around so i don't know if it will properly burn onto a disc. as an experiment, i put it on my mp3 player and tried listening to it. my player just skipped right to the next file.

i read on here a while ago that its not ideal to use ableton to record an entire mix, but at the moment i have no other means of recording. any suggestions?

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:23 pm

It's fine to use Live for recording, many of us here do it with no issues at all. You need to make sure you render the file as a 16bit stereo wav, likely you are rendering as 24bit or AIFF it sounds like. Then you can use something like iTunes to make an MP3 if you wanted.

Bill_Lee · Post by **Bill_Lee** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:55 pm

great, thanks a lot.