MP3 attachments

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Fran

Use Win XP home, IE6, OE6 and stuck with dialup service. For my job I have
to email several MP3 voice/sound files to my boss daily. These files range
in size from 2000 to 8000 kb each. It is taking forever for these emails to
go through, slows my incoming mail, holds my outgoing mail in my Outbox and
generally makes my computer system sluggish.

Are there any methods or tips to send these MP3 attachments thru faster?
All suggestions and help is appreciated. Unfortunately, I cannot afford
broadband, dsl, etc.
Thanks in advance,
Fran
 
You could lower the size of the files by zipping them, but other than that I
cant think of a good way to send them via email. Maybe put them on a
website?
 
Fran,

MP3 files are already in a compressed format and WinZip or any other compression software may not be able to compress it further. There might be a marginal difference in the compressed mp3 and an mp3 file. Not sure if there is any other compression utility which will help.

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Use Win XP home, IE6, OE6 and stuck with dialup service. For my job I have
to email several MP3 voice/sound files to my boss daily. These files range
in size from 2000 to 8000 kb each. It is taking forever for these emails to
go through, slows my incoming mail, holds my outgoing mail in my Outbox and
generally makes my computer system sluggish.

Are there any methods or tips to send these MP3 attachments thru faster?
All suggestions and help is appreciated. Unfortunately, I cannot afford
broadband, dsl, etc.
Thanks in advance,
Fran
 
Joseph Conway said:
You could lower the size of the files by zipping them, but other than
that I cant think of a good way to send them via email. Maybe put
them on a website?
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I agree with the website suggestion. MP3 files are already compressed, so
there is little to be gained with further compression. In general, these
are large files to be sending as email attachments, particularly since email
attachments are encoded, a process which increases their size by about 1/3.
So an 8MB file is really about 11 MB in the email. I would instead use an
FTP server (a website), either associated with your employer (preferred) or
associated with your ISP (where your file quotas are usually very limited).
Most ISPs give you some web space, so you could FTP the files to a folder in
your personal web space (using either the FTP program included in WinXP or
your browser). Any person who knows the name of the folder could then use a
browser to access that folder, and download the files. To use this
approach, you would have to learn about accessing your personal web space
and FTP. Whenever I want to make a large file available to someone else, I
use FTP and a website rather than email (even with broadband).
 
Fran,
If you're using a POP3 email service (and you probably are with OE) you
really need to reduce the size of your attachments to less than 5 MB. Even
so, if you're using a dial up service your max upload speed even with a 56k
modem is actually 33k which is approx say 5 mins per MB, on a good day.
You could try reducing the mp3 bitrate quality - you may be using 128 bit
(CD quality) sound files, whereas for say, voice only, you could reduce to
about 32k - experiment to see what's acceptable to you - and reduce the file
size accordingly.
Also, hit the 'receive all' button first in OE, then at least you can be
reading your inbox after you click send all.
Hope this helps
Chek
 
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Why not place the files on a shared network dive, and email your
boss the links to the files?

Bruce Chambers

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Joseph said:
You could lower the size of the files by zipping them, but other than that I
cant think of a good way to send them via email. Maybe put them on a
website?
Click to expand...

a lot of times an mp3 file comes out to be larger if you zip it since it
is already in a compressed format.
 
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