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As a general rule of thumb, if a DAW (For the fruity user, thats what we call programs like FruityLoops) has an export to .mp3 function, it probably won't be as good, quality wise, as if you use something like LAME (which is a free, open source .mp3 encoder). There are quite a few graphical frontends for LAME - I use RazorLame, but it doesn't really matter which frontend you use - as long as they still use the LAME codec it shouldn't effect the sound quality at all.

So what you should do, is render (or export) your song to .wav. Then, encode it to .mp3. Using LAME with some smart settings, you should quite easily be able to get your song down to 6MB, unless its over 6 minutes long. Then things start getting tricky. For the settings, use joint stereo and VBR to help keep it small, and if it still isn't small enough lower the minimum bitrate.

If any of this didn't make sense, I apologise for my rambilings, but you can look it up on wiki and google. You should also find some neat advice for LAME settings all over the place. ^_^

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I ended up using winLAME; I don't really know anything about using source code :P

Anyways, it worked great! The sound quality's better then the built-in encoder, it's 192 kbs and clocked in at ~4mb! Yay for variable encoding!

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