2007-01-08 18:41:41 · 13 answers · asked by trtl03 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
you can buy a pack of cd's for just about the same as a pack of floppy disks. so just do that. If you dont have a cd burner.. just buy a USB flash drive. .... just plug that up to your computer... drag and drop the songs you want. .. and you will be set
2007-01-08 18:48:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you really want the hassle of working with floppies, feel free. A floppy is rated to hold 1.44 Mb of data. Most good MP3 files are twice that size, and won't fit on a single floppy.
If you must use floppies, then you can download a program like WinRar from the Internet. WinRar is a compression utility much like WinZip. Unlike most Zip files, the WinRar allows you to break a file into sections which will fit on a floppy disk. You move the file sections over to the second computer, and use WinRar on that machine to reassemble the parts. Trust me... This is more of a headache than it is worth.
USB flash drives are dirt cheap these days. I just bought a 512 Mb USB drive at "Wally World" for $14.88 plus tax, and it works like a charm. That single 512 MB flash drive will store and move around150 MP3 files at a time. Well worth the fifteen bucks.
If $15 is an issue, check with the computer lab at your local college. Students are always losing flash drives at the college. They are stuck in the lost and found for a while if the owner cannot be identified by the content, and the computer lab will normally give the unclaimed drives away on request.
If the computers are in the same room, you could network the two or use a "null modem" serial cable. It would still be less hassle to cough up the price of a flash drive.
2007-01-08 18:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most mp3 song files are 3 MB large at least, and floppy disks are about 1 1/2 MB large. So an MP3 song file won't fit on one floppy disk (unless it is very poor quality or fairly short).
If it were small enough, it would be fine, but most MP3s simply ain't gonna fit.
2007-01-08 19:13:57 · answer #3 · answered by romulusnr 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Most mp3 files are "ripped" in 128kpbs bitrate. If you were to reduce the bitrates down to, say, 32kbps bitrate, you might be able to fit one song onto a floppy disc. Now if it's a super-floppy drive (short-lived format), each disc holds 100MB so you could get a number of songs onto a single floppy disc that's a super-disc.
2007-01-08 18:51:06 · answer #4 · answered by bogus_dude 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but..
A floppy is only 1.44 megs
Most mp3 songs are 3 or 4 megs in size
2007-01-08 18:44:29 · answer #5 · answered by ignoramus 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mp3s are an average of 5mb a peice. Floppys hold a max of 2mb. not possible unless your talking about a zip floppy.
2007-01-08 18:45:13 · answer #6 · answered by ConstElation 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That would not be very efficient.
If you don't have a DVD or CD burner, or a flash drive or an external hard drive, or an mp3 player, then here is a suggestion ....
upload them to http://www.x-drive.com then you can download them to the other computer.
2007-01-08 18:49:18 · answer #7 · answered by Pichi 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes consider the file size is smaller than 1.44MB, that mean you can transfer only a short song each time. Suggest you to buy a USB flash drive, it's cheap and the capacity is big (can be up to 2GB).
2007-01-08 18:46:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, if the MP3s in question are relatively small files (less than 1.2MB) but it'd be extremely slow going, you'd be better off finding some place to temporarily host them on the internet (emailing to yourself should work wonders).
2007-01-08 18:45:00 · answer #9 · answered by yelxeH 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
floppy discs are old news. Try to put them on a CD ..if you don't have a burner then try a USB flash drive or just send them to yourself through AIM...though it may take a while that way
2007-01-08 18:44:20 · answer #10 · answered by citygurl8503 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋