28 Mar
2013
28 Mar
'13
5:01 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein(a)vait.se> wrote:
I always upload flac files to Soundcload, but wonders
if I upload a high
quality MP3, then maybe they will leave it untouched and use the uploaded
one? I can imagine that many people uploads MP3 files, but it should sound
terrible if they reconvert them also, or maybe they do?
Soundcloud will encode to their own standard, which I think is
128kbps. They even have this disclaimer:
"Sometimes our transcoding system can create audio artifacts, as we
transcode all tracks to 128 kbps mp3 for streaming playback. Uploading
a lossless or high-quality lossy file will usually reduce these to a
minimum, but unfortunately there's not much we can do for the handful
of individual tracks that are still affected."
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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