Audio file compression

Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:28 am by Zack Lyons

I've converted a piece of music to .wav format, but it's 25.8 MB! It's only 2 mins 33 secs.
Other mods which have changed music have much smaller .wav files. So what do I do?

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Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:20 pm by parabolix

Download Wavepad at download.com. You can save files in wave format using mpeg encoding.

Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:34 pm by Chips

I think I used DBPoweramp file converter...........same thing, different name essentially. Fraid you will have to google it though

Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:48 pm by silvik

I used GoldWave Editor or something like that ...
Can convert practically every media type to another.

Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:43 am by Zack Lyons

I remember why I downloaded WavePad now.....I hope that works....

Freelancer only takes music in .wav format though, and Wavepad saves .wav at the high file size if I remember.

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Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:13 pm by Mace_166

There is a very basic one in windows/system32 called soundrec.exe, I think that should be able to change your file to any size you need. I think all of freelancer is 22000 Kbs x mono. Hopefully that should be enough to get you sorted..

Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:24 pm by Zack Lyons

No that's a recorder...

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Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:41 pm by silvik

GoldWave at: http://www.goldwave.com/

Convert all your soundtracks to:

Bit rate: 56kbps
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Sample rate: 22kHz
Format: MPEG layer-3

Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:32 pm by Zack Lyons

Has to be .wav though. I think you're suggesting .mp3?

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Sat Oct 30, 2004 12:40 am by silvik

nope, it's wav.

Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:14 am by Zack Lyons

Converted. I'll put it in-game later

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Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:03 pm by Mace_166

I hope it works, but if not you can use sndrec.exe. You open the file then go to properties and convert now. There`s a whole list of formats. I think for freelancer, the music is 80kbs x stereo (22k hz) and the dialogue is 80kbs x mono (also 22K hz).
I think it is possible to add new dialogue by opening up the utf file of the pilot then exporting the files in utf. They are .wavs. It would be a nice idea, but it would take so much work that i doubt that anybdy would bother.
Good luck wif your thing anyway..

Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:59 am by Zack Lyons

Your program changed it from 27.9MB to 879kb. I just hope it loads up in game.

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Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:20 pm by silvik

Of course it loads up in the game, this is tested.

Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:46 pm by Zack Lyons

A converted file has never loaded up for me before

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