Large email files for sermons

[Jesus is my friend]

We've had some discussions at church about the importance of reviewing sermons the week that they are preached.and one of the ways mentioned was to send these files out in email form to the members interested in receiving them,I'm not real computer savvy at all but am willing to learn,I have basic aol.mail and can load and make the attachments to my mail however I dont know either how to compress these files into zip mp3 files if that's a good idea or somehow use a different program or email provider to send these files out,I am thinking that unless i can compress these files that other folks wouldnt be able to open and listen to them anyway,any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated-Thank you!

 

[fredtgreco]

The best way is to host the file online somewhere and send a link for downloading. You could use a service like YouSendit or Rapidshare to host the file.

 

[Romans922]

Podbean has worked well for me.

 

[Jesus is my friend]

Thanks for the tips,I did also find a program called "Audacity" which is free and can convert the WAV. files of our sermons into MP3's in the 5-10 mb range which makes it a good fit for aolmail,this is a wonderful thing and I am happy,and this opens up new doors of opportunity for evangelism and ministering within the Body of Christ

 

[Tim]

Yes, all you need to do is keep it under 10 MB and you will do just fine with email.

 

[ClayPot]

If your church has an RSS feed you have allow people to subscribe to the feed and then post the sermons there. They will then be downloaded into each person's rss reader.

 

[Webservant]

If your church has an RSS feed you have allow people to subscribe to the feed and then post the sermons there. They will then be downloaded into each person's rss reader.

This is an excellent solution - the best one, In my humble opinion. By the way, the OP mentioned Audacity. That's what we use. It will serve you well.

 

[Notthemama1984]

The only thing you have to worry about with Audacity is any music. Its playback is slightly faster than realtime so it affects the pitch. You can't notice really on talking, but everyone's singing and playing will sound out of tune. Just something to be aware of.

 

[VictorBravo]

The only thing you have to worry about with Audacity is any music. Its playback is slightly faster than realtime so it affects the pitch. You can't notice really on talking, but everyone's singing and playing will sound out of tune. Just something to be aware of.

Huh? I use Audacity a lot for recording music. Using standard settings it is right on, down to the fraction of a second (important if you are trying to synchronize tracks with video, for example).

Maybe you have some default settings changed. You can change pitch and tempo independently of each other.

As for the original question, I agree that hosting it somewhere is the best approach. Another option of file sharing for people who don't hate Microsoft is Windows Live.

 

[Romans922]

I should've said that on Podbean there is an option, that when you post sermons of audio files, it will automatically send it into iTunes and you can have it as a podcast, which then people could go and look at everyweek.