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listening to things on dail up

Jan 11, 2009 3:25AM PST

i'm in charge of putting sermons up on our church's web site and there r a few people who r trying to listen to the sermon on dai up and they can't is there any way to fix this?

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Re: listening to things on dial up.
Jan 11, 2009 3:42AM PST

Not really fixable. You won't get good sound quality if you make a special 40 kbps version for them. Anything faster won't work.

Things you can do:
- Burn it to a cd-rw (that's reusable) and send it to them.
- Mail them an mp3-version. For spoken text 64 or 96 kbps is fine and that's about 500 kB a minute. Would be doable for a 10-minute sermon (that's a 5 Mb file).
- Put the same mp3-version on your site and let them download it to their own hard disk, then play from there. Nothing goes wrong if you spend 1 hour to download a 30 minute sermon.

Kees

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thanx
Jan 11, 2009 3:51AM PST

thanx i'm using audacity to record and to put the sermons into mp3 128 kbps how would u make at a lower bitrate?

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Re: audacity.
Jan 11, 2009 3:56AM PST

I've got the Dutch version, so my translation might not be equal to what you read.

From the menubar: Edit>Preferences>File Formats
Then near the bottom is a drop-down box for the LAME mp3-export bit-frequency. I can choose values from 16 through 320.

Should work.


Kees