[X4U] Need to split or shrink an .mp3 file

Rod Buchanan lists at sofstats.com
Mon Mar 30 11:43:06 PDT 2009


On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> A friend gave me an audio book in .mp3 format. The file is 981 MB in  
> size. I'd like to put it on my iPod Shuffle but it only has a  
> capacity of 966 MB. How can I either split the file in two smaller  
> chunks or change it (resample?) to make the file size smaller? I  
> tried splitting it using Quicktime and saving it as an .mp4 but my  
> iPod won't accept it.

Use iTunes to convert it to AAC at a lower bit rate.

-- 
Rod

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