I've been asked to convert a bunch of music for our season over to be used for our theatre hold music. Our phone provider wants them as wav files. No problem. They also want the files to be:
-PCM16 format
-16.000kHz
-16 Bit-Mono Sampling
Also no problem. BUT they also want the files to be no larger than 4mb. Thats where I'm having the problem I can convert this stuff all day long but for a full length song I can't do anything to get the files as small as they want them. I've run through all my usual programs and I've tried all kinds of online converters too just to see if it makes any difference and I just can't make them small enough without compromising somewhere, usually lowering the bit rate. That makes it sound terrible.... but also sounds like pretty much every other hold music I've ever heard. Is that just what I have to do or does someone have an idea I'm not thinking of?
They're reaching out to our provider for more details but I haven't heard back yet. I"m assuming the 4mb limit is the hard line because they can't use anything larger, I have a feeling the other requests are for their "optimal" file but that bit rate and the sampling size aren't hard limits.
-PCM16 format
-16.000kHz
-16 Bit-Mono Sampling
Also no problem. BUT they also want the files to be no larger than 4mb. Thats where I'm having the problem I can convert this stuff all day long but for a full length song I can't do anything to get the files as small as they want them. I've run through all my usual programs and I've tried all kinds of online converters too just to see if it makes any difference and I just can't make them small enough without compromising somewhere, usually lowering the bit rate. That makes it sound terrible.... but also sounds like pretty much every other hold music I've ever heard. Is that just what I have to do or does someone have an idea I'm not thinking of?
They're reaching out to our provider for more details but I haven't heard back yet. I"m assuming the 4mb limit is the hard line because they can't use anything larger, I have a feeling the other requests are for their "optimal" file but that bit rate and the sampling size aren't hard limits.