Posted by OG on 10/08/06 23:58

"mr_cross" <mr_cross_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1160327176.182467.312250@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Q:How to zip mp3 to my Yahoo space, then unzip it once it's in my Yahoo
> directory?
>
> Hello. I'm new at this, so I'll try to explain as best I can. I have
> some webspace over in Yahoo/Geocities, and I'd like to upload several
> mp3 songs that I wrote and recorded. But I notice that Yahoo/Geocites
> won't allow me to upload mp3's over 5 megs. I record my songs on a Boss
> multi-tracker that's about 10 years old I think, and I just got started
> with Sony Acid Music Studio 6.0. So I don't know if a 3 to 4 minute mp3
> song (guitar, lead guitar, bass, drums, vocals) is supposed to be
> around 5 megs or much smaller. As I mentioned, I'm pretty new at this
> stuff. So I guess that means I must zip my mp3 files before I can
> upload them to Yahoo. The thing is, even if Yahoo allows me to upload
> zipped mp3 music files, how do I unzip them once the mp3's are on my
> Yahoo webspace? Sorry if this sounds pretty elementary, but I've never
> done it before. Thanks a lot.

You probably can't do it.

When you zip an MP3 file it doesn't get much smaller. This is because MP3
encoding tries are already compressed.

If you have a 10Mb music file it will probably still be more than 9.8Mb when
its zipped.

The only thing that MAY just be possible (but I suspect not) is if you
change the file name so that it has a different file type, load it to your
Yahoo/Geocties site and change the file time once on the remote server.
i.e. if you have a file called myMusic.mp3, change the file name to
myMusic.txt, load it to the webspace and then change the file name back to
myMusic.mp3 using ftp software like SmartFTP. However, I don't know if this
is possible wit Yahoo/Geocities.

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