Myspazz Compression. Grr.

Neoni · 15 Jan 2008 at 04:21

Its really annoying you know, you bounce your session out of pro-tools into wav, or for myspace purpose into mp3, and it has a 4 meg file size limit? something like that.

anyhow you spend ages working on a crisp sounding, quality track, for myspace to turn it into some junk the tracks i posted to you all, were in fact compressed and sounded crap which i worked out today, anyone find the same thing,

i think its time to build an official website when i get time, ive countered the problem at the moment by using a 3rd party media player. you can tell the difference on thunderstruck (in sig), play the one in myspace, then the one on the embedded player, much more clarity.

-Neoni

Zefan · 15 Jan 2008 at 05:13

Does sound a lot worse in the myspace player!

james.miller · 15 Jan 2008 at 05:52

stick with a custom player then, you'll loose the ability for other people to use it as their profile music i guess, but meh. its either that or just upload segments, or find a better way of encoding the mp3's. some of them are quite acceptable, im sure you could if you tried.

Neoni · 15 Jan 2008 at 17:11

james.miller said:
stick with a custom player then, you'll loose the ability for other people to use it as their profile music i guess, but meh. its either that or just upload segments, or find a better way of encoding the mp3's. some of them are quite acceptable, im sure you could if you tried.

its either mp3 or .wav and the wav files are huge, your talking cd quality if not higher.

benneh · 15 Jan 2008 at 17:29

The custom player sounds a lot better, but for me it streams terribly?.

Neoni · 15 Jan 2008 at 18:06

benneh said:
The custom player sounds a lot better, but for me it streams terribly?.

it is streaming terribly just bought some webspace, should be fixed by tonight

Andelusion · 15 Jan 2008 at 19:15

I think the average myspaz listener doesn't give two shiny poops about sound quality personally, best to just put a link to a site where you can upload in higher quality.

divine` · 15 Jan 2008 at 19:46

Andelusion said:
I think the average myspaz listener doesn't give two shiny poops about sound quality personally, best to just put a link to a site where you can upload in higher quality.

Agreed, the averager listener won't care, if they'd even be able to tell the difference to begin with.

I'll be honest, I didn't notice enough difference that would make me bother waiting longer if I had to etc. the MySpace player version was perfectly adequate for it's purpose.

MikeHunt79 · 15 Jan 2008 at 20:39

It's not too bad if your songs are shorter than 3 mins.... But it is annoying regardless...

Think of it this way... If someone has the crap quality MP3 for free, they may pay for the FLAC.

Also, I've found, quite a few (but not all) listeners don't really care about sound quality - prepare to have your songs listened to thru laptop speakers or crappy ipod headphones...

It can be quite a challenge getting your song to sound good on all systems, so my advice is to listen to your tunes on as many sound systems as possible.

I know of someone who produces tunes just using the speaker of a B&W TV, but I think that's going a bit far.