From jake92028@yahoo.com Wed Nov 15 18:13:18 2006
Subject:OT ,mp3 from .mid. and .wav for demo's

With some members posting audio files which are really great to
listen to, I assume or read they're mp3's.

I got so used to working with Band-in-a-Box a few years ago that it's
easiest for me to make songs/demos using it. But it produces .mid
files with the option of rendering them to .wav. I have Windows Media
Player 10 which is supposed to be able to convert from .wav to .mp3
*if you have the necessary codecs installed on your computer.* (and
know how to do it)

I'm running Win XP Pro and know how to look at the codecs list, so I
see there are codecs there - but I don't know anything about 'em. All
the audio file info online is about ripping and burning files to CD
which I already can do if I want to. The problem seems to be that
what I want to do is too simple, and all the advice is how to do
complicated things involving many files and sound libraries. The
freeware I tried for the most part does not do what it says it will
do, or thinks I want to do something else - or is actually very
complicated, some wanting me buy in order to proceed.

Can one of the tekkies here tell me a simple way to convert my .mid
and .wav to .mp3 - if it can actually be done simply on Windows Media
Player 10 as claimed - or if I need another program, such as? I
want .mp3's for example to go on a MySpace site, and they're the
smallest (?) file format.

TIA ~ Walter j