Thanks Ed, I'll check out your suggestion. Cheers, Richard
________________________________ From: Edmund Craske <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 26 September, 2010 20:33:12 Subject: Re: [sussex_mug] A quicker way to send a 720MB file? On 26/09/2010 17:00, Richard Coker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to send 720MB of Wave files from my iMac to a PC user. It's > been suggested I use WeTransfer.com so as a test Ive just tried sending a > 51MB file to myself but the upload time is about 18 minutes (I aborted half > way through). Creating a zip of this file reduces it's size but only to > 48MB so the upload time is still pretty much the same. At this rate 720MB > will take about four and a half hours! > > Has anyone got any suggestions as to how I can make this task somewhat more > efficient? > > Many thanks, > Richard One thing to bear in mind is that you can perform lossless compression of wave files (e.g. FLAC, Apple Lossless) which could perhaps reduce the size of your audio files by 30 - 50%! Of course you then have to factor in the time it take to compress and decompress those files, but decent software may be able to deal with that compression natively. Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
