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smallest music file?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:40 am
by mrgame
my main song for my first game is 43mb.... and i need it smaller. what can i do to get it smaller but game editor can still use it?

Re: smallest music file?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:04 pm
by Kodo
Use a different format completely, a MOD, XM or IT track can be as small as a few Kb and last for minutes. They also provide a better and consistent* sound than Midi. WAV files are often huge, especially for long music tracks. I use WAV files for sound effects only, and even then if you load them up in a sound editor you’ll be able to remove a lot of dead sound space making the file size vastly smaller.

* How good Midi playback sounds is usually dependant on the sound hardware it is being played back with.

Re: smallest music file?

PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:36 am
by Kalladdolf
ogg is also very handy.
consumes about as much memory as mp3.

Re: smallest music file?

PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:10 pm
by Azou
Try to get a software to reduce it like dbampower :D