Email music files from one compuer to another

January 6th, 2009
  • Greetings: I need to know how to transfer music audio files from my computer to someone else's computer. I work in Pro Tools music software and I want to e-mail music audio files. Can someone explain the process who knows about transferring music audio files. I have a MAC G5.


  • What is the size in megabytes of the audio files?


  • Also wich mail services are you and your friend using?, and which mail programs if any?


  • Greetings, I have four songs and they add up to 104.2 megabytes total and they are 10 min. and 18 sec in length total. I have high speed internet connection. I'm not sure what connection the destination computer has. I have to find out. Thanks


  • jj13... 4 songs for a total of 104.2MB means they average about 26MB each. There is no email service that I know of that allows for such large attachments, at least for free. I have to deal with large music files myself, sometimes. The simplest solution I've found is a free service called YouSendIt. You don't even need to create an account or provide your own email address to use it. Just upload the file(s) you want to send and put in the recipient's email address. You can specify multiple email addresses separated by commas. Once you've sent it, you'll also be taken to a page with a link which you can email to other people, if you like. The file will stay available for download for 7 days or 25 downloads, whichever comes first. Filesize can be up to 1GB!!! Also notice that it's on a secure server: https://www.yousendit.com/ Problem solved! Please do not rate this answer until you are satisfied that the answer cannot be improved upon by way of a dialog established through the "Request for Clarification" process. sublime1-ga


  • Thank you for your reply sublime1. Can you tell me how I would upload the music files? I have never uploaded files before. Also, I would like to know how to compress the music files for my own knowledge in case I ever wanted to do that. Thanks, JJ


  • jj... To upload your music to the YouSendIt site, just go to their homepage and click on the Browse button. This may or may not initiate the download of a small application which allows you to browse your system with an Explorer-like interface (I don't remember). A lot of sites use this type of application to allow you to upload a file. Or, it may just open a dialog window without downloading anything. Either way, just browse to the location of the files you want to upload and double-click on them, or select them and say Okay, or Open, and the upload should start automatically. The easiest way to compress a file or files is to use WinZIP, though, if you have Windows XP, I understand it now includes a zipping utility as part of the Windows Explorer interface. In either case, you should be able to access the function by right-clicking on the file(s) you want to compress. WinZip: http://www.winzip.com/ All of that may be moot, however. Few people bother to zip MP3 files, since they are pretty well compressed to begin with. a 5.5MB MP3 file, zipped, will still be about 5.4MB, so compressing them to squeeze under an email attachment limit isn't really an option for files such as you described. sublime1-ga


  • Greetings Sublime, I had computer problems and was offline for a minute. I have another question. The MAC that my music files are on doesn't have Internet access so what I did was after I made an MP3 file in ProTools, I copied that MP3 file on to a disk and I uploaded that disk on my PC and sent that file to yousendit.com and I sent the MP3 to another computer in my house to test it first to see if the file would play. I received the file okay but when I click on the file, it brings up my MATCHBOX media player which is my default player and the file is not in the menu and that's where I'm stuck presently. I have other files in Matchbox that play fine. Do you know why the file would not be showing up? Thx


  • jj13... Your latest question is beyond the scope and price of the original question, and you'd probably be better off posting a new one, since I don't own a copy of MusicMatch or a Mac, for that matter. I'd suggest trying another mp3 player to check out the file, or, instead of just clicking on it, open the MusicMatch program and use the File -> Open dialog to navigate to the file and open it. It's not impossible that, with all the copying and moving of the file, it became corrupted by way of a faulty copy, upload or download. sublime1-ga







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