Music

[samhill86]

ok, i need to get several 5mb music files from 1 pc to another with nothing but a fistful of floppy disks...impossible, no? um, anybody got any ideas, i was thinking maybe there's a program out there than can be used for chopping/editing mp3's.

[5029]

Have you tried zipping it with winzip? If they both have internet connections, you could email them to your own account from your own account.
Maybe doing both might work

[samhill86]

no, i JUST have floppy disks and winzip wont compress the files enough : 5+mb files, 1.5mb disks.

[moonacre]

There's an easy solution called disk spanning. Although there are several utilities which do this you'll find that it is included in the latest version of Winzip (free for evaluation). If you already have the latest version, great. If not upgrade. Then what you do is check the disk spanning box (in options if I recall correctly) and start zipping your file to a floppy. When that floppy is full Winzip will ask for another floppy and continue to do this until the file is fully coppied on to a set of disks. Unzipping on another machine is straightforward - put the first disk in then Winzip will ask for the next and so on. By the way, mp3 files are already compressed so trying to compress them further with Winzip won't make the file smaller as I think you've already found. In this instance it doesn't matter because you are just using Winzip's disk spanning feature. If you get stuck read Winzips help files.

[xyzzyplugh]

There are 2 freeware apps available; Audacity and Goldwave. Painstakingly using say, Audacity, you split your music file into five pieces, save each one to a floppy and load the pieces into the other PC then you carefully reassemble them. When I did this with an rare MP3 I was able to not only cut and paste successfully but also remove a few stray click and gracks, leaving me with a better copy than I had started with. Fun to do if you got lots of spare time and patience.