Solved MySpace quality?

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Does anyone know the sample rate/bit depth MySpace uses? I've heard it was 22.1Khz/96 KBPS or something extremely crappy like that.

Going against what I want to do, I'm going to get a MySpace account and put songs up there.
 
I don't know the numbers, but it sucks. Really messes with my already crappy mixes...I hate it. However, myspace makes it really easy to get in contact with new people and bands and to show my music to a bunch of people.
 
danny.guitar
I've tried searching for the specs related to their conversion/mincing but they don't seem to be readily available - there's no answer in the help section of mspace either.
The site & having your music on it is a useful PR tool - the limited number of tracks isn't flash & the compression/mincing is AWFUL so I maintain my soundclick site as my 1st point of upload & mainataianance but use the mspace for what is does - make contacts.
Sorry!
 
Pretty much, soundclick and lightningmp3 for uploading decent sounds, MySpace and Facebook for plugging your band; It depends on your reasons for getting MySpace.

A lot of people seem to be turning away from MySpace for personal use as far as I can see, which obviously inhibits its use as a promotional tool for bands, with people not reading their bulletins etc.
 
I'd hang a hook out on meSpace, but just use that as a front, linking to a real website of your own. It's gotten so incredibly cheap and reliable nowdays (if you shop around properly), there's no reason not to IMHO. It gives you the best of both worlds; a website you can actually make to look and sound halfway acceptable, and a presence on meSpace so people can actually find you.

G.
 
You can put up a flash player on myspace. I have an old one here - www.myspace.com/nlrs - they have newer fancier ones available now. There are some tricks to getting myspace player to sound better - check out www.myspace.com/rustmine - the song "alone" - sounds OK on myspace (still sounds better in MP3 format though.)
 
i'd say the bitrate is anywhere between 32 and 96 kbps. so, 64 is a good bet. ;)
 
I just checked the Kbps on my own page and it's 96 for the streaming music. I checked the download also and it comes through at whatever resolution you put the file up at. I've used 320 Kbps and downloaded to check and it stays the same.
 
yeah its the streaming stuff that sounds crap. uploading the highest bitrate possible seems to help a bit....
 
Yeah I noticed the downloaded file is the same as whatever you uploaded at. 96KBPS sounds about right. But I think their sample rate is like 22.1KHz which is odd because I wasn't aware an MP3 could be at that sample rate. It might use a different codec.

NL5 - Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware you could have a different flash player on there. How'd you get your page like that? Looks really good.
 
I just checked the streaming file I referred to in my last post and it is at 22 kHz.
 
BillyBo said:
i'd say the bitrate is anywhere between 32 and 96 kbps. so, 64 is a good bet. ;)
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I don't think it's THAT low. It's probably 112kbps or 128kbps with VBR. It sounds kind of low quality but have you heard mp3s at 32 and 96 bitrates? It's pretty much unlistenable. There simply aren't the swishing high frequencies and warbling voices that you'd get with that low of a bitrate.
 
TerraMortim said:
I don't think it's THAT low. It's probably 112kbps or 128kbps with VBR. It sounds kind of low quality but have you heard mp3s at 32 and 96 bitrates? It's pretty much unlistenable. There simply aren't the swishing high frequencies and warbling voices that you'd get with that low of a bitrate.
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I'm pretty sure Tim's findings are accurate - they stream at 96k/22.5 - A good mix will hold up OK, but issues will stand out even more at that rate.
 
I used RealPlayer v11 to check the streaming files. It can save to disk anything that you're streaming, and appears to save a file in exactly the same resolution it's streamed at.
 
NL5 said:
I'm pretty sure Tim's findings are accurate - they stream at 96k/22.5 - A good mix will hold up OK, but issues will stand out even more at that rate.
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maybe I should be more secure in my mixing ability then =D they sound pretty decent on myspace... just a tiny bit of fuckery in the cymbals. As I said, I'm not an expert, it just didn't seem to be THAT much more lowfi than when something was encoded even at the allready low 128kbps for me.
 
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