From nilstr@hotmail.com Fri Nov 17 06:01:24 2006
Subject:RE: OT ,mp3 from .mid. and .wav for demo's
You can download the audio application Aidacity, and the Lame converter.
when you have innstaled Audacitty then install the Lame converter, and you
will be able to choose MP3 from the save menu in Audacity.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>From: "jake92028"
>Reply-To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
>To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [CWSG] OT ,mp3 from .mid. and .wav for demo's
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:09:13 -0000
>
>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