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I am wanting to put all my CD's on my iBook and use it only for music as I am wanting to go into the DJ business. I have put like 8 or 9 cd's on there already and it says it has used up like 4 gigs of hard drive space. How do I compress the music?
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I have an MacBook, 15" monitor, 1 GIG ram, 120 gig internal hard drive, 500 gig external hard drive, and an iMac with 40 gig internal hard drive with iSight web cam. Using Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
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How did you put the music on there? I take it you have iTunes installed? When you say compress do you mean MP3 or another format?
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Sounds like you haven't used any form of compression at all, if eight or nine CD's are taking up 4gigs - maybe just copied the AIFF files straight over?
As BrettOZ suggests, give iTunes a try - it'll do everything for you. You'll probably want to play around with the settings a bit to strike a balance between audio quality and file size.
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Yeah, I use 128AAC for good quality and not so large size.
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I have used iTunes. I will try playing with the settings and see what happens.
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I have an MacBook, 15" monitor, 1 GIG ram, 120 gig internal hard drive, 500 gig external hard drive, and an iMac with 40 gig internal hard drive with iSight web cam. Using Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
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Originally posted by trek2008:
I have used iTunes. I will try playing with the settings and see what happens.
If you have it set to use the AIFF encoder (in the Import section of the Preferences), you will get huge files like that. AIFF is uncompressed audio and uses, I believe, 10MB per minute. A 128kbps MP3 or AAC file, on the other hand, will use about 1MB per minute.
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Originally posted by trek2008:
I am wanting to put all my CD's on my iBook and use it only for music as I am wanting to go into the DJ business. I have put like 8 or 9 cd's on there already and it says it has used up like 4 gigs of hard drive space. How do I compress the music?
You might want to consider getting and iPod, there are alot of reports of DJ's using iPods to DJ. Also don't forget when you encode using ACC or even MP3 the sound quality isn't as good as CD due to compression.
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Originally posted by trek2008:
I am wanting to put all my CD's on my iBook and use it only for music as I am wanting to go into the DJ business. I have put like 8 or 9 cd's on there already and it says it has used up like 4 gigs of hard drive space. How do I compress the music?
You're trolling, right? How do you want to become/stay successful if you don't even know how to compress music? 
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Originally posted by andreas_g4:
You're trolling, right? How do you want to become/stay successful if you don't even know how to compress music?
I was wondering the same thing. Wanna be a DJ but don't even know the abc's of digital music. C'mon, who doesn't know what an mp3 is vs. AIFF?
straight up amateur 
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