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Myspace and downsampling

shadowself	Date: March 31, 2007 @ 11:55 PM Has something changed? I am listing to someone's recording, and it does not sound like it has been downsampled below 128k. Have not listened to a lot yet on Myspace (because of their previous downsampling habits) but if it is no longer the case... hmmm.
shadowself	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 12:07 AM Listening more... it's not quite as good as the mp3 from which it came - but it's better than before.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 12:13 AM I have heard they downsample to 96 Kbps and 32 Khz. so a 16 bit / 44.1 Khz / 128 Kbps mp3 becomes a 16 bit / 32 Khz / 96 Kbps mp3. I wouldn't stake my life on this but this is the consensus on various other websites I'm party to from one or two people claiming to have the inside skinny on this.
shadowself	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 12:36 AM Well, I used to have my stuff on there and it sounded like steel wool after they were done with it. This was 3 years ago or so.
Distilled1	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 1:32 AM our stuff seems to sound ok on there... not that I go often just to accept friends and say Hi To DMusic once in a while
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 3:03 AM 16bit/32 Khz/ 96 Kbps doesn\t necessarily sound absolutely terrible, it depends on the frequency range and levels on the original. It doesn't suit some of my music too well as it has a lot of dynamic range with complicated attack transients in some parts of certain tunes.
Doyo	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 6:05 PM rap seems to sound better on there
Doyo	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 6:05 PM rap seems to sound better on there
Doyo	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 6:06 PM oops sorry
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: April 10, 2007 @ 7:04 PM Most rap music doesn't involve lots of dynamics or layers of sound, it is purposefully stripped down to basics, so quite often it's just the voice, a drum beat and bass with maybe some samples interspersed here and there and the odd synth line. So the downsampling would effect it less but trust me, the same mp3 would not sound better there than it would posted here, in fact it would probably sound worse. Try listening to a classical music piece or a prog rock tune with 50+ tracks, multi layered vocals, synths, guitars etc and then you would really notice the difference.
blacklieder	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 11:32 AM Hmmm... I think I need to take a closer look at this. I was under the impression that many producers were gearing up their tracks for digital conversion to handle this very issue.
NickSawyer	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 1:20 PM On 10th Apr 2012, Doyo said: rap seems to sound better on there rap seems to sound better on there rap seems to sound better on there rap seems to sound better on there rap seems to sound better on there

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