With so many clamouring to get their music heard these days, any convenience you can afford the listener is important.
 
In the songs forum, it's quite right that some would refuse a download as it slows down the process of reviewing greatly, it could take 50 minutes for example for some to review 10 songs that way.  You either have a fast connection or you don't review many songs is all I conclude from you even bringing this subject up.
 
If you wanna be heard then accomodate the listener, rather than try to educate them.
 
If you use your own streaming media player server side you can even govern the quality and format of your uploads.

bapu


Keepers?

Like THIS?

Ed you missed a perfect opportunity to link to your own HQ media player there.
 
(or did you?)

Jonbouy

bapu


Keepers?

Like THIS?

Ed you missed a perfect opportunity to link to your own HQ media player there.
 
(or did you?)

I'm just not paying attention, Am I?

Well that link above was for Soundcloud but THIS LINK is for my site's embedded HQ Media player.

I've seen several occasion where people claim to dislike downloading a mp3

 

bapu

Jonbouy

bapu


Keepers?

Like THIS?

Ed you missed a perfect opportunity to link to your own HQ media player there.

(or did you?)

I'm just not paying attention, Am I?

Well that link above was for Soundcloud but THIS LINK is for my site's embedded HQ Media player.

See?
 
How cool is that, a whole bunch of toons and you just click on one and it starts playing.
 
Well done Bapu!

 Well, I don't have strong feelings on the matter but I've ran into a few people online that get really bent out of shape over musicians giving away free downloads. The point was, all the free music on the internet devalues music and creates a pattern of people expecting free music.  
 I agree with Rain, I would prefer to hear the stream first, the decision to dl and it and keep it would have little or nothing to do with audio quality anyway. 
 Unfortunately as much as we hate them, it doesn't look like mp3's are going away anytime soon and I think has become the responsibility of the producer to make a mix that still sounds good squashed down to 128

mike_mccue


I just downloaded the "play hi-fi" choice of I Am and it was 128kbs.

I was shocked when I downloaded the "play lo-fi" version and learned it was a 24kbs mono mp3... if I had the choice I would not let such a lo res file become a representation of all the hard work you put in to making your music.

Can you choose to not have a lo-fi version on sound click?



I guess the 128kbs streams almost 3 times faster than a 320kbs version.


all the best,
mike

That's some of the old stuff on SoundClick... just haven't updated my sig in a long time.  The newer stuff is on SoundCloud because it streams at 128 and downloads at whatever rate you upload it at.  I almost always upload at 320 to SoundCloud. 
 
My SoundCloud music is at http://soundcloud.com/genghis_hb  The download link at the top tells you how big the file is, but doesn't necessarily tell you the bandwidth.

Hi Ghengis,
 Sure enough it's just like you said. I used the download link to get the 320kbs version of Mystery Meat and then I downloaded the stream and it was at 128kbs.
 
 The 320kbs version sounded much better.

 It's great to have the option to download the higher res.

 Nice song too. :-)


 best regards,
mike

Don't forget you can upload files onto SoundCloud at full res eg 44.1K 16 bit and make the files downloadable. Then people can get the highest quality version compared to any mp 3 file. They are obviously larger in size eg 10 Min/minute for stereo. But I have used that feature a few times to demonstrate very high quality audio files.

It is a pity that we even have to think in terms of compressed audio files. No matter how you look at it they are just not as nice as the raw wave files.

Thanks for explaining about that Jeff.

I also get excited by FLAC but I get the impression that few people know how to play it.

The Winamp app on my Android phone plays FLAC, and the Foobar 2000 I use on my PCs do too. It seems like if you are really into it you can go that route too.


best regards,
mike