Patrick,
IMO, you should first try this:
1.- upload any standard mp3 file to the 8 notes site.(you can later delete it). If you succeed, then the procedure you are using is OK and the problem must be somewhere else. If you don't, there is a problem in the procedure or at the 8 notes site related to your account. ADMIN could help in this case.
2.- If you think that emailing the file to anyone interested could solve the problem, suggests that your file is playable by anyone with normal media devices, such as Windows Media Player. If this is the case, the analog solution I provide below is not the best way to go.
You can mail the file to me and I will try to find out what the problem is (but I am not an expert on formats, just a user).
2. If the problem is related to digital copy protection issues (your file is not a standard, unprotected .mp3 file) and you are the legal owner of the music in the file, there is always a way out, though it is not for purists: go to analog reproduction and make a mp3 file from this. How?
- You must have a recording SW installed in your PC (and a good sound card, obviously). I suggest Audacity, it is the only one I have used and it is OK and free. You can download it from the sourceforge (
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), if you do not have it already. You must install also the mp3 CODEC, which for legal reasons is not included in the Audacity pack. Audacity tells you how and where to find it, the first time you try to export a file to mp3.
- Once you have it in your PC (Codec included), connect the output (headphone out) of your Ipod to the line input of the sound card on your PC. Activate Audacity in the record mode and after a couple of seconds start reproducing the music file on your IPOD. Audacity has Vu-meters that should show that is receiving the signal. Be sure you have selected "Line" or "mixer" (just experiment a little) so that the signal source for audacity is the PC Sound card line input.
- Once you have completed recording the file in Audacity you can tell it to make a mp3 file out of it. Otherwise Audacity saves its files in a proprietary format, only playable with Audacity.
- Audacity is really a sound editor, meaning you can work on the Audacity file to modify or improve it in case you have problems or want to edit the contents in some way. But you do not have to use this features to export to mp3.
It is simple (or complicated) as that. You can use the same procedure to "rip" (extract analog "files") from old vinyl disks (we all have a good collection of them), audio cassettes, even 78 rpm vintage paste disks.
Good luck!
<Added>The CODEC necessary to export mp3 files from Audacity is called LAME.
If the application does not link you to the right site to download it the first time you try to export to mp3, you can also find it at the sourceforge web page (do a search of the site using lame), if necessary, do the same thing to find audacity in the first place. Sourceforge is a very big site, full of interesting free software (albeit mostly for gurus, though not in the case of Audacity).
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