Okay, before you all go 'OMG MP3S! ILLEGAL!' we're looking to embed the MP3 into our site so nobody can download them. Second, the MP3 is of the Russian National Anthem, which is freely available online anyway, so I don't see any problem.

Right now it's 3.37Mb and I'd like to compress it to a size that's preferably non-broadband (i.e. 56k) friendly without a massive quality loss. Possible? Get back to me if you can and that'd be lovely!

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Fire Pretty - Graz's Armoury - (That's my blog...)

The Soviet Bunker - (That's my forum...)

"Thou shalt not steal. (Because the government doesn't like competition!)"

How to keep an idiot busy: See below
How to keep an idiot busy: See above

96kbps. Below that it sounds horrid.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

btw, I don't think its possible to actually embed a mp3 into the site, b/c HTML doesn't allow it.

All someone would have to do is look at your source, see the mp3 file referenced in your code, and then cut/paste the file path into the browser to download it.



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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

Most of our readers aren't that clever.

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Fire Pretty - Graz's Armoury - (That's my blog...)

The Soviet Bunker - (That's my forum...)

"Thou shalt not steal. (Because the government doesn't like competition!)"

How to keep an idiot busy: See below
How to keep an idiot busy: See above

Hmm I can't get it below 2.5 MB - best think of something else to put up then.

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Fire Pretty - Graz's Armoury - (That's my blog...)

The Soviet Bunker - (That's my forum...)

"Thou shalt not steal. (Because the government doesn't like competition!)"

How to keep an idiot busy: See below
How to keep an idiot busy: See above

2.5 MB on 56k doesn't take that long.

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crap happens...

If its freely available online then why would your viewers want to download it?

Also you could maybe just shorten it a bit.

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/fluffle

It is not nice to force the visitors to download it, though

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"Music is the universal language and the
dialect we speak in is Hip Hop!" - King Solomon

What Molgrew said - on my blog originally I had a Muse song embedded and it really wound the dial-uppers.. up... because it would download in bits and keep replaying itself, and it would slow their connections down no end. Maybe we need some sort of music toggle switch... maybe my mate can code that, I'll ask him... that way the broadbanders can hear the music in its full length and quality.

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Fire Pretty - Graz's Armoury - (That's my blog...)

The Soviet Bunker - (That's my forum...) Choice language warning!

"Thou shalt not steal. (Because the government doesn't like competition!)"

How to keep an idiot busy: See below
How to keep an idiot busy: See above

can you find a good midi of it?

and midi does not suck it's your computer's hardware/software

on the right computers midi can sound quite good provided you aren't trying to do guitar with it

or you could try 64kbps which is a big quality cut but it really depends on the song

remember the doom3 theme is a 32kbps ogg so some people will go with unnessecarily low bitrate files sometimes

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LONG LIVE DREAMCAST!!!

[This message has been edited by DrkJedi82 (edited August 24, 2004).]

Vorbis.

Its your friend, use it.

Google for LameFE.
Uber audio encoding / CD ripper program.

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<]-[ellequin[]Off> Everytime I think I've hit the bottom, and can't get any lower, someone tosses me a shovel

As terrible as it is to stream music, try using Flash.

Well, I hate flash too, but I can't think of a better way to do it short of MIDI.

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