How do you send mp3's via e-mail?

Steve Alonzo Walker · Post by **Steve Alonzo Walker** » 20 Nov 2001 5:45 pm

I can't seem to send any mp3's thru the e-mail. Will someone please explain the correct way to do this? Thanks!

Larry Beck · Post by **Larry Beck** » 20 Nov 2001 7:30 pm

you can send any file, be it mp3's, jpegs, docs or whatever as attachments. How you send an attachment depends on your email client. Outlook has a paper clip icon, eudora, and netscape, hotmail etc. have their own variations.
When in doubt, click on help and search for attachment or as a last resort, RTFM.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 21 Nov 2001 4:17 am

The size of the file may be what is stopping you. Some e-mail systems have a max file size. If it exceeds that size it won't take it or your system could take it but the receivers e-mail system may reject it because of the file size.

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 21 Nov 2001 7:02 am

If you are useing IE5.0 or better, You can tell it to break a large file down into 500K chunks. Most ISP's will accept a file this big.

Lets take a 3meg file for example..... IE5.0 will sent it out as about 15 seperate files to the ISP. Now thru a bit of computer magic,(which we won't go into here) when your computer receives all of them, it is converted back into singular file.

Works great !!!! I use it all the time.

Post by **Joey Ace** » 21 Nov 2001 2:37 pm

Some ISPs limit the size of an attachment you can send to 1 or 2 MB.

A simple workaround, if you want to provide large files to friends, is get an account at www.kturn.com

You get 125MB of free space that you and your friends can access via the web.

It's free, you just have to put up with their ads.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 21 Nov 2001 4:06 pm

Bill,
Where on the IE homepage do you go to
"tell it to break up the large MP3
files"? Could you point me in the
right direction?

I guess you could put the MP3 files in
a ZIP file, but the MP3's are already
compressed, and the ZIP does compress it a bit furthur, but not enough to make much
difference, right?

ChipsAhoy<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 21 November 2001 at 04:07 PM.]</p></FONT>

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 21 Nov 2001 5:13 pm

It's Outlook or Outlook Express where you can select an option to split files apart.
Go to Tools then select Accounts and then select Properties for your e-mail account. In the Advanced section there is an option for splitting files at the maximum you set.

However, this is only necessary if you send files larger than your ISP's (or the addresee's)max file limit.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 22 Nov 2001 6:22 am

Thanks Jack.
CF

Adam · Post by **Adam** » 26 Nov 2001 9:59 pm

Don't forget about all the file sharing programs out there that will allow you to do this too.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 27 Nov 2001 4:14 am

Adam, right on. I sent a 10 meg (program) file to another forumite using the file transfer capabilites of MSN Messenger. And, I've transferred files with ICQ.

Michael Garnett · Post by **Michael Garnett** » 29 Nov 2001 3:22 am

I'd say to your question, "Don't." there's a lot of problems with servers when you start to send big files like that over e-mail. Pictures of the wife and kids are ok, but big files like MP#'s tend to be bigger than the servers like to send and recieve.

File sharing through programs like MSN, ICQ and AIM are good for single mp3's, but if you're looking to send MP3's in BULK, and you're not behind a firewall, might I suggest looking into FTP transfer protocol? (For those of you who know what that is, you'll know it's redundant, "File Transfer Protocol" transfer protocol) It's a lot faster, because you don't have to worry about your computers connecting through different servers. Look 'em up, they're pretty neat when they're put together right.

Garnett