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| Topic Started: 27 Jan 2009, 03:41 PM (55 Views) | |
| Hoggy | 27 Jan 2009, 03:41 PM Post #1 |
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Can anybody help? I have a music file in my library in Windows Media Player which somebody in my chorus has asked me to email to him. I have spent an hour this morning trying to work out how to do this but am totally lost. I think it has to be zipped, doesn't it, and I haven't a clue how to do that? In the event I have just copied the file to disk and will send it to him by snail mail but it would be useful to know for future reference. |
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| Ruum Taedor | 27 Jan 2009, 07:06 PM Post #2 |
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Emailing an attachment is fairly straight-forward. To begin with, if you copied the file to a CD, that must mean you know where the music file is on your hard drive, so that's a good start. Whatever email program you are using, start a new email and look for an option to include an attachment. Typically, when you include an attachment, a dialog box opens asking you to navigate to the file you want to attach, in My Music, for example. Locate the file on your hard drive and click OK. Some email programs support drag and drop. This means you can open My Computer (for example) and locate your file on your hard drive, then drag the file into your new email message and it will be attached to the email. Be aware of the size limit your ISP has on attachments, usually 5 MB or 10 MB. If it's just one music file, you should be OK. I hope that helps. |
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| Hoggy | 27 Jan 2009, 07:14 PM Post #3 |
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Thanks Ruum, will give it a whirl. |
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| Hoggy | 27 Jan 2009, 07:45 PM Post #4 |
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Dunnit. Actually, the process you advised is of course the process I have always used to send 'normal' attachments which I have used countless times. I think I was complicating things for myself in that I was looking to doing it in a different way and also I couldn't find the music file I wanted. However, after your reassurances, I spent some more time investigating and it works fine. Also worked out how to zip the file. I thought zipping was supposed to make it a lot smaller but, in fact, the difference was minimal. It was 2.77mb unzipped and 2.68 zipped. Is that normal or was I doing something wrong? Many thanks, anyway. |
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| Ruum Taedor | 28 Jan 2009, 02:37 PM Post #5 |
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Glad I could help. I forgot to address the zip question. Compressing or zipping a file does make it smaller. In the case of a music file, it already has some compression applied to it, so zipping it has a minimal effect on the file size. Your audio file as a raw uncompressed audio file is about 10 times the size. If you were to compress something else, like a large Word document, for example, you would probably see better compression. Another reason for zipping is to contain multiple files. For example, if you wanted to send 10 files, you could zip the 10 files into one zip file and email the one zip file. |
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| Hoggy | 28 Jan 2009, 04:09 PM Post #6 |
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Thanks Ruum. That is very helpful. |
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