Weighing Multimedia
6C: Things

By now you know all about compressing what people see. ThingMaker users should also know how to shrink what people hear.

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The documentation tells us that when importing a sound, you can click the Compress checkbox in the Open dialog window to compress the sound file. Note that you can only compress before importing, not after.

There are some exceptions to the compression rule: sounds less than two seconds long sometimes compress poorly, as do sounds sampled at less than 11.025-Kbytes. Don't bother compressing WAV files, because ThingMaker does that for you automatically. Finally, use 16-bit sound instead of 8-bit -- the sound quality is better and the size difference is negligible after the file goes through ThingMaker's compression algorithm.

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