Stereo to mono in audacity

[GeoKureli]

I'm trying to get the filesize in my game down. I noticed all of the songs are stereo, with a left and right audio track, when I export a mp3, the options I see are 'joint stereo' and 'stereo'. is joint stereo the same as mono? The filesize seems to be the same, I even converted the stereo track to mono and the filesize didn't change. I'm assuming that half samples would mean half the file size.

Am I going about this the wrong way, or with the wrong mentality? Do you have any tips to lower the file size? I've already lowered the quality to 64 kbps.

[AeroMusic]

At 3/25/14 08:20 PM, GeoKureli wrote: I'm trying to get the filesize in my game down. I noticed all of the songs are stereo, with a left and right audio track, when I export a mp3, the options I see are 'joint stereo' and 'stereo'. is joint stereo the same as mono? The filesize seems to be the same, I even converted the stereo track to mono and the filesize didn't change. I'm assuming that half samples would mean half the file size.

Am I going about this the wrong way, or with the wrong mentality? Do you have any tips to lower the file size? I've already lowered the quality to 64 kbps.

don't think putting putting it in mono should lower file size its still a similar amount of bits - try turning the bit depth down.
64kbps is verry low quality think some devs host the audio online and then program the game to load the sound from wherever its hosted
mono should just make the low quality less noticeable

[GeoKureli]

At 3/25/14 09:29 PM, AeroMusic wrote: think some devs host the audio online and then program the game to load the sound from wherever its hosted

yeah, I would go that route, but there's a chance the player could reach the part of the game that needs the audio before it's loaded. I could make it show the load screen until it's done loading from an external source, but then I'm in the same boat. It's not that my file is too big to put on newgrounds, I just don't want the player to wait to long to load.

mono should just make the low quality less noticeable

does that go for joint stereo too?