as the title suggests, is there any program that would allow me to do this as i have a song i would like to put on my phone but when i try to transfer it it says 'file to large'

thanks in advance

yep, you can re encode it at a lower bit rate.

i use www.dbpoweramp.com but mp3 is no longer free, its only a 30 day trial, but if you only need it for one song...

LOL cheers for that

Download FREE media monkey from www.mediamonkey.com , get the track you want and convert it into mp3 at a loweer bitrate! simple and FREE!

cheers for that too

Use DietMP3.. I swear by the program - and its so easy to use. I can manage about 60 MP3s on my LG8150 using it:

http://www.eniacjia.com/

i have a NEC e616v with 19mb memory in it, how many do you reckon i would get on it with this programme?

I got 25 + on a e228 useing Windows Media Encoder

Also check to see if your phone can also play them in a different file format. Nokias can play AAC music files as well as MP3's, I find that 80-96kbps in AAC can sound as good in most cases as a 128-160kbps MP3.

well, roughly 400K per file.. so work it out

nice thanks for all your suggestions guys

also what settings do you have to get one down to 400k? as i can only get them down as far as about 1.5mbish

heres what i use http://www.mptrim.com/

it's free

stuart

I can only find a trial of this, how much does it cost? as i was sick of it only doing half a song.
David

yeah its only the trial im using as well, seems to be doin the whole song for me and not just half.

says it costs $14.99

yeah it used to only do half, now it does the whole thinkg but only fifteen of them, might buy it one day though.
David

Choose cellphone, telephone quality and stereo as your options when setting up.

i tried that and when i try to play them on my phone, the phone wont open the files

http://www.mp3prozone.com/download.htm

maybe your phone won't play .wma extensions?
you'll have to convert to .mp3 first!

now this is the thing, it does support .wma also aac, 3ga, asf, mid and midi files.

when i use dietmp3 it will convert the mp3 to a smaller size when i do cell phone, fm quality, mp3 and mono it will play fine on the phone, now if i change from fm quality to telephone the phone just says unable to open file and it has been converted to an mp3 file

maybe it cant handle certain bit rates or encoding types, like VBR, or maybe a mixture of both?

if it can handle aac, i would use that at the lower bit rate, just to throw some more confusion in the bucket

LLF ok so how do i go about shrinking them to a decent size?

www.dbpoweramp.com should do that for free

for best results, always start with a CD source and rip that directly, or to a wav and then convert

then select AAC, chose the lowerst biteate and hit convert