Peekay1982
Joined: 18/10/06
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Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
#571161 - 23/01/08 01:17 PM
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Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere - I had a fairly thorough search and
couldn't turn anything up...
The MP3s I burn of my music always have that
horrible artefaction (particularly round top-end percussion). I've tried to upload
AIFFs/wavs, but the file size is always too big (and I'm talking about 3 minute songs
here). Is it even possible to upload either of these formats, or is MySpace solely MP3? Is
there any way to improve the quality of the MP3s I'm creating (I realise this may be a
question for a different part of the forum).
Thanks in advance!
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Stuart Churchill
Joined: 30/10/03
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Loc: Wales
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: Peekay1982]
#571205 - 23/01/08 02:33 PM
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I think that you may only upload MP3s to Myspace, but I'm sure someone will correct me if
I'm wrong.  What bit rate are you using for your MP3s? If it's low, then try a higher
rate.
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GlynB
Joined: 26/09/03
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Loc: Lancashire, UK.
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: Peekay1982]
#571240 - 23/01/08 04:06 PM
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It should be possible to upload MP3s to MySpace nad have it sound reasonable. I hear lots
of good sounding music on there.
One thought, is you music heavily compressed
to start with as part of a mastering process? I know some dance music is compressed to
make it loud, this might tend to sound worse once encoded for MP3 than music which has not
been compressed?
if this applies to you, try uploading the track in a more raw
format prior to mastering? Only my theory mind you!
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Peekay1982
Joined: 18/10/06
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: GlynB]
#571379 - 23/01/08 09:27 PM
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Cheers! I know what you're saying, I hear plenty of stuff which sounds really good. I'll
give the higher bit rate a go.
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chris...
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Loc: Glasgow
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: Peekay1982]
#571408 - 23/01/08 10:40 PM
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If you're particularly fussed about myspace sound quality, can get your own proper web
hosting and put up files of any format / bitrate / quality you like. Trigger them from
your myspace page via a custom player widget that replaces the default myspace player.
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PWGLE
Joined: 04/05/03
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Loc: UK - Cardiff/Bath
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: chris...]
#571904 - 25/01/08 01:12 AM
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I use 192VBR for Myspace, and just convert the files in iTunes (right click convert) No problems so far  L
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moo the magic cow
Joined: 25/10/06
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: Peekay1982]
#572304 - 26/01/08 12:38 AM
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I don't really get this. So many complaints about myspace - it's ugly, it ruins your
sound, it's annoying - if it's so much trouble, why bother? And what on earth
do you mean by burning MP3s?
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GlynB
Joined: 26/09/03
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Loc: Lancashire, UK.
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: moo the magic cow]
#573935 - 30/01/08 03:16 PM
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Quote moo the magic cow:
I don't
really get this. So many complaints about myspace - it's ugly, it ruins your sound, it's
annoying - if it's so much trouble, why bother?
And what on earth do you mean
by burning MP3s?
It not
necessarily ugly, once you've tweked it using one of those twekr program thingies!
Nor does it necessarily sound bad, as previously stated I've heard lots of music
which the sound quality is reasonalby good, PROVIDING the recording was good in the first
place, but that's not MySpace's fault.
Why use it? personally I use it for
promotion and making contacts. i get a lot more 'return' for the effort i put into MySpace
than I do from my own website and email. You can make it work for you, same as LastFM can
work for you.
Is it the way you'd ideally design something, no way! But it's
there and you work with it or miss out on a free promotional tool, it's like not
bothering with newspapers and trying to get Press because you don't like them. You could
do that, but you'd be missing out.
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ahw
Joined: 17/10/06
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Loc: San Francisco, CA, USA
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Re: Posting wavs/aiffs to MySpace
[Re: Peekay1982]
#579815 - 12/02/08 11:13 PM
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Has anyone noticed that recently, songs posted to myspace sound terrible. The original was
encoded from wav to 192kbs mp3 and sounds fantastic on my system. The songs I uploaded a
year ago sound ok on myspace too - but the new ones, which are processed in exactly the
same way on my side sound like crap on myspace. I think they must be
compressing the hell out of new posts as you upload. Anyone else noticed this?
Is there anything you can do to work around it. I even tried making a 128Kbs encoded
version and uploaded that - same crappy quality on myspace  If you download the song from myspace it sounds great - what's the deal?
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