SageQuartz Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I've been wandering this for a while now ^^; (sorry if it's a stupid question, but I just need to know...) How can I make my song 6 MB and still sound good? (I use fruity loops) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epock Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I'm also having this problem. I have a song that I think may be ready to submit, but the lowest I can get it to is 6.5 mb before I go under the required bitrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageQuartz Posted May 16, 2007 Author Share Posted May 16, 2007 That's way lower than mine ^^; I can't even get it close to that. My songs are around 42 MB, more or less... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Try using a good MP3 encoder. I personally use dBPowerAmp, 'cause it does tagging and cross-encoding and all that jazz, and I have a preset for 96-192kbps VBR. uhh... 42 mb? Is it an hour-long symphony or is is just a .wav file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageQuartz Posted May 16, 2007 Author Share Posted May 16, 2007 Well I feel sheepish Yeah, it's a wav. file. Because I'd like to put in a song, but I don't know if its good enough, or if it needs any fixing. (I think I might post it up in "works in progress" or what ever it's called ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splunkle Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epock Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I ended up using winLAME; I don't really know anything about using source code 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smenelian Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 LAME is integrated into FL by default and produces fairly good mp3s from my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 They're okay, but the amount of options for rendering is severely limited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutritious Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Yeah, I usually export wavs from FL Studio then use Soundforge to encode it since FL doesn't let you use Variable Bit Rate (I have no idea why). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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