MAKING AN MP3 FILE

Take a look at the file size of the Bounced.aif file—it's huge. Even a short song can be several megs in size. A typical 5-minute AIFF song will take up about 45MB of drive space.

Select the song in iTunes and select File Get Info. You will get a window like Figure 7.3. It shows you a variety of information about the song.

Figure 7.3. The Summary tab of the information window shows us that this 18-second song takes up a whopping 3.1MB!

If you want to share your song with others via your iPod or by sending it to them via the Internet, ...

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