.WAV to .MP3 or another low-size format

[deamonic]

ookay, at the moment im making a scary wad for GZDoom, but just after i put the AWESOME and also.... HOME MADE! sound effects in it blew up from 1 meg to 3!

why? because theyre freaking .wav files!

i need to find something free that converts from .wav to .mp3 RIGHT NOW! because i only have limited time on the good comp :(

anyway, thanks to anyone who decides to help, ill go looking for one now, ill post if ive found one.(along with a link for anyone else who has wad-size-blowwy-uppy problems)

[shtbag667]

Its really hard to find a wav to mp3 converter online without finding something that isn't shareware with very limited abilites (you can only use it once or something stupid like that). I do all my converting , recording, and editing with acid pro 4, but its not free.

You can try changing the size of the wav by recording in mono instead of stereo. You might also be able to get a smaller size by changing the bit depth and sample rate but I'm not sure what kind of difference there will be.

In a worse case scenario I can convert the wavs to mp3s for you. Its easy to do.

[x0563511]

You want something with LAME. Lame itself isn't useful, its just a library.

Try poking around on this list: http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html

[The Undertaker]

dBpowerAMP Music convertor (http://www.dbpoweramp.com)

[deamonic]

i found one a while ago. no more 3.78 megs, its now 1.89, with the addition of the new zombies from zdoom monsters resource.

[Aliotroph?]

I've been using CDex (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/) but I'm a bit mad that it won't let me take an MP3 and convert it to something else. I've been using Winamp to get around that problem by converting to wav and then using CDex to convert to ogg.

[That Doom Guy]

use Switch.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html

[owna]

You can use Windows Media Player if you have a spare cd. Just burn it to cd and rip it again as an mp3.