Often, for such purposes as, for example, downloading a song to a mobile phone with a small amount of memory or the Internet, it is necessary to reduce the weight of the song. There are several options for solving this problem.
Instructions
Step 1
To reduce the weight of the song, you will need one of the programs designed for editing or converting audio files. Examples include applications such as Sound Forge, Adobe Audition, Format Factory, and others.
Step 2
The first option you can use to reduce the weight of the song is to save it in a different format. For example, wav files by definition take up more space because wav is an uncompressed format. By saving a song in any of the compressed audio formats, you can reduce the weight of the song. To do this, open the song in an audio program using File -> Open. Then select "File" -> "Save As" and select the audio format. Click the Save button.
Step 3
The most common audio file format is mp3. It is one of the compressed formats. Meanwhile, some other formats provide better data compression than mp3. For example, if you save a song in ogg format, then it will weigh less than in mp3 format. At the same time, such characteristics as sampling rate and bit rate will remain the same.
Step 4
The second option to reduce the weight of the song does not require changing its format. You need to change its characteristics: frequency and bit rate. Open the desired song in one of the programs designed for editing audio files. To do this, select "File" -> "Open" in the application menu. To start saving, open the menu "File" -> "Save As". Choose the same format as the original file. After that, click on the button responsible for configuring the save parameters. In the window that appears, select from the list the desired values of the sampling rate (measured in hertz) and bit rate (measured in kilobits per second). To reduce the weight of the song, they must be smaller than the original values of the audio file. Then click OK. In the dialog box, select the desired location to save the file and click the "Save" button.
