Hello,

I'm having trouble with a sound file I want to put in my map. First things first, I know nothing about sound conversion/compression, it's the first time in my life I'm having to spend some time on this.

The sound file properties are as follows:

File Size: 2.00 KB
Codec: mp3
Format: Lame MP3
Bit Rate: 20kbps
Channels 1 (mono)
Sample rate 16KHz

Now, I know SC requires 8-bit/16-bit mono or stereo .wav files (am I wrong?), but what is the best way to convert to that? I tried a few conversions but since I don't know much about audio files, I ended up with a file which the sound quality is far worse than the original file and the size is about 10 times bigger.

Just how do I do this? If there is any good software or tutorial out there about how to handle audio files and compress/convert them to the format I want, a link would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Winamp has a .wav disk writer plugin by default.

Or just play it with winamp and use windows soundrec (or whatever) to record the song, then save it as .wav.

Audacity is a free audio tool. I'm pretty sure it can also save as .wav.

I recommend you either use the AVS Audio converter. That's what I use for some of my wav files. This allows you to convert any other music file to wav, not just wav, and any audio file can be converted into any other audio file. (Recommended no more than 2 minutes wav runtime, you can go more but I'm not sure if the wav will record correctly or it will output quality.)