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Curt Christianson - 06 May 2008 01:06 GMT

Good evening experts,

My sincerest apologies if this has been asked recently, but I could not find
it.

I ripped a single 6:0), 40.3 MB track off a CD using WMP10. I'm assuming I
will have to convert and burn it to a Playlist before I can send it. That's
assuming I can send a file that size, but my next question is, is there a
certain format to send the file by e-mail, so that it is playable to the
recipient. If you require additional info. , I'll be glad to provide what I
known.

My apologies is this is one of those "ludicrous" queries. (The XP NG's I
*do* hang out at consider the only dumb question to be the one you fail to
ask, but this could really be pushing it ;-) ).

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Many TIA,
Curt

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 06 May 2008 23:03 GMT

>Good evening experts,
>
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>I ripped a single 6:0), 40.3 MB track off a CD using WMP10. I'm assuming I
>will have to convert and burn it to a Playlist before I can send it. That's

A playlist would be the wrong thing to send - that only sends the
location of the file (which is your local hard disk) not the actual
audio file.

You should be able to right-click the converted file in the media
player library view, and choose "Show Location" to open the folder
which contains the file.

Once you know where that is, you can add the file location as an email
attachment.

By default, WMP will rip Audio CDs to WMA (windows media audio) which
all versions of windows media player can play. There's also an option
to rip to MP3 audio, which without exaggeration, *everything* can play

It's notmal to get about 10:1 compression, so your 40MB audio track
would be about 4MB when compressed - quite a lot of email accounts can
now accept files of that size.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Curt Christianson - 16 May 2008 09:53 GMT

Hi Neil,

Sorry about taking so long to respond--'puter woes and all. Thank you for
mentioning converting the files to MP3's. I had *no* idea there was that
much difference in size.

That will certainly do the trick for me.

Thanks,

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>>Good evening experts,
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> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
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