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Chazzy29	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 12:22 AM It seems to be working only half the time. Some people can hear my material and others say it doesn't work. How can I fix this? See if it works for you http://demon1976.dmusic.com/
Cryxan	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 12:30 AM I downloaded a handful of your tracks and only some of them play. For the others, my player can't identify the file. There is likely an issue with how they were encoded. LAME is the best way to go. You should try reencoding the ones that don't work.
Chazzy29	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 12:51 AM I used Yamp to encode. It's weird the would play sometimes and other times they don't play. It works when they want. Very unpredictable. However, all of them play when I click "hIFI Stream" on my computer.
Cryxan	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 12:53 AM Since DMusic is allowing the files to download, it looks like it's not an issue with DM getting the file to the listener. There's gotta be something up with that file.
Chazzy29	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 12:59 AM mmmmm, Why would they work after I get them uploaded and then not work by other users, randomly?
Chazzy29	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 1:13 AM I Have some of the same stuff listed on Myspace and I'm being told by people that the sound quality is much better using Myspace. Is there way I can get Dmusic to sound better?
Opossum	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 1:21 AM I've seen people report errors on files (of other users) that always worked fine for me. Who knows from computers?
Opossum	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 1:26 AM Also, some encoders (at the exact same bitrate, even) are vastly inferior to others. Back before I knew better, I had an encoder called CDCOPY, in which the 356k results were vastly inferior to even average 128k files, soundwise. Seriously. One of the main difference was that the high-hat sounded like a soup can being whacked with a hollow tube.
pog	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 1:37 AM kk... I just checked out the first track, acid culture, and discovered it's in asf format. In other words, you have a configuration in yamp set wrong, and it's converting the files to wma (windows media audio). I'll run up the trial version, and see if I can direct you to the correct setting.
pog	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 2:03 AM Thats just bizarre... I don't even see how yamp could have possibly encoded it to a wma file. Maybe you did that with acid culture only. I suggest when encoding with yamp, using the constant bitrate at 128k. That will stream the best. Now I see whats going on... Acid Culture, Demonized and Heavy Metal Road House Blues have all been encoded into wma files, and presumably renamed to .mp3 You will need to encode them from wav to mp3's and re-upload them.
Chazzy29	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 2:55 AM POG you ROCK! That's exactly what is wrong. Thanks alot!
pog	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 3:34 AM My pleasure... if it was anything other than metal, I would have made you wait a few days.

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