Sending Large Files over the Internet March 17, 2008
Posted by ConnorSmith in : Computers, General Announcements, Studio Setup , trackbackPJ’s post gave me the idea to share my experience with sending large files of the internet (Thank’s PJ!). If you need to send session files, wavs, other sound files, omf interchange files, etc… over the internet, its unlikely your email provider will let you attach such large files (plus you will clog the receiver’s inbox). Here are the two ways I like to send files.
This is an awesome website. You can register for free, and send fairly large files (I think up to 100 MB) at a time. There are no waiting periods, ads to click through, or anything like that. Yousendit just sends a link to your and the receiving person’s email, with a link to their servers to download the file(s). Awesome.
You can also try out their Pro package in a free trial. The Pro package will get you up to five 2GB files at a time! If you decide to stay with the Pro, you can for $9.99 per month (and, unlike many other sites, you don’t need to input your payment information when doing your free trial. AKA – there is no automatic renewal until YOU decide to fully sign up). If you are like me and send a lot of audio files and projects over the internet, the $10/month is a steal.
Mail from Google is in my opinion, THE best email out there (especially for us audio people). For starters, you get over 6GB of space. Yes, 6GB (plus its constantly going up). You also get google search capability through your email (so you can type in any word that was contained in your email, and google will find it for you). Never delete or lose an email again. You can also send large files (I think up to 10MB, but don’t quote me. I think I’ve sent slightly larger with no problems). As an added bonus, you get Google Calendar (to schedule your clients), and Google Documents (to create, send, and save any documents that you’d use in your studio, such as contracts, invoices, song sheets, equipment setup lists… etc). Its no wonder Gmail was “invite only” for so long. Now, anyone can join for free.
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hello from ecaudor. i actually think 27mb is the max for gmail.
Hi Alex –
Thanks for the correction. Wasn’t sure on that.
That’s a lot of available space, man… gmail is great.