A button which converts the audio to MP3, to take up less space in the project, such as the Convert to Bitmap button.

Why don't you do that yourself? There's a lot of converters online.

TheSecondGilbert wrote:

Why don't you do that yourself? There's a lot of converters online.

it would just be easier, safer, and more convenient for Scratch to have their own button.

underfanreal1 wrote:

TheSecondGilbert wrote:

Why don't you do that yourself? There's a lot of converters online.

it would just be easier, safer, and more convenient for Scratch to have their own button.

I agree it would be harder if there's no button

Support because scratch sometimes converts audio to .wav and that can take up a lot of project space

SandwichCafe wrote:

Support because scratch sometimes converts audio to .wav and that can take up a lot of project space

I agree. Scratch should have an mp3 converter. It's always annoying when .wav files use up too much storage, causing Scratch to show a message saying “Project could not save”, due to the Scratch project exceeding the 10 MB limit.

k0d3rrr wrote:

SandwichCafe wrote:

Support because scratch sometimes converts audio to .wav and that can take up a lot of project space

I agree. Scratch should have an mp3 converter. It's always annoying when .wav files use up too much storage, causing Scratch to show a message saying “Project could not save”, due to the Scratch project exceeding the 10 MB limit.

Scratch 3 has no size limit. there's a per asset size limit of 10MB, but converting between wav and mp3 wont magically make your audio file smaller- its best to convert it yourself at a lower bitrate.

Scratch 3 actually does not convert mp3 audio files to .WAV upon import like Scratch 2 does- Audio files when imported into scratch 3 are not modified at all unless you make a change to it in the audio editor. Thus, you can have much higher quality audio than in scratch 2 at the cost of having to compress it yourself.

I don't really see a need to convert audio to different file types from within scratch thanks to scratch 3's increased flexibility.

a bump, all in lowercase.

For some reason, i remember hearing that this wont happen because of copyright or something, but this might be from something else.

Scratch 1.4 had a similar feature (Edit → Compress Sounds).

Sadly, this is not viable. While it would be helpful, MP3 converters take a lot of time and energy to program. This not only would be hard to implement for the scratch team, but it may cause additional lag as well.

Bump

True I'm in need of some converter to make a animation music project thingy, Idk how people make projects with music using a mp3 Converter Without getting a virus

I actually do think this should be a feature. The button shouldn't be clickable when the audio is already MP3, and should be clickable when it is not. This will allow people to edit long sounds without them becoming drastically larger permanently and forcing them to shovel drop it into bits.

HOW IS THERE NOT A BUTTON LIKE THIS

No support. Just rename the file extension from .wav to .mp3 :facepalm:

ajskateboarder wrote:

No support. Just rename the file extension from .wav to .mp3 :facepalm:

That won't compress the file though, it's still just a .WAV file with an .MP3 mask

country_kid wrote:

ajskateboarder wrote:

No support. Just rename the file extension from .wav to .mp3 :facepalm:

That won't compress the file though, it's still just a .WAV file with an .MP3 mask

Oh, why not use a converter then? It's really not that hard.

CallmeA_Kreb wrote:

True I'm in need of some converter to make a animation music project thingy, Idk how people make projects with music using a mp3 Converter Without getting a virus

Here you go. It's secure, fast, and doesn't give you a virus.

doesn't convert to bitmap already exist? anyway it wouldn't work on audio files

alejthepro wrote:

HOW IS THERE NOT A BUTTON LIKE THIS

Because the Scratch Team hasn't added it.

-Valtren- wrote:

doesn't convert to bitmap already exist?

Converting an image file to a different file extension vs converting an audio file to a different file extension are two different things.

-Valtren- wrote:

anyway it wouldn't work on audio files

Why wouldn't it work on audio files? Please explain why.