Best to Upload a Wav or Mp3 to Soundcloud

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I have a question for Soundcloud users - do you lot upload your tracks as wav files or as mp3, and if mp3 what bitrate are yous using?

Cheers!

I upload 16-bit 44.1kHz FLAC. They are the same quality as WAV simply half the size and can comprise embedded meta data (creative person/title/anthology/data/genre/paradigm/etc). I use Foobar2000 freeware to make them and embed into them. FLAC can be chop-chop and easily converted to WAV and so on, so it's a expert format.

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I've always used 320mp3 but I'll have to look into this FLAC.

I recollect trying a 16/44 file and it didn't covert besides every bit the 320 did on the Soundcloud player.

WAV only here. SoundCloud already kills the audio a bit, no demand to make information technology worse IMO. If you exercise it with WAV you tin permit anyone to download it as a WAV every bit well on the vocal. If its to allow someone hear an thought and then MP3 is fine
I wouldnt go through the FLAC converting crap myself

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I usually upload 16/44.i or 24/44.ane WAVs and make them bachelor for download.

Soundcloud converts to 128 kbps so you don't want to re-convert an mp3 or other lossy format.

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i upload 320mp3 and information technology'south never sounded degraded in any manner.

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Originally Posted past cebec ➡️

I usually upload 16/44.1 or 24/44.1 WAVs and brand them available for download.

Soundcloud converts to 128 kbps so yous don't desire to re-catechumen an mp3 or other lossy format.

And the DLs are in the original format, even though the streams are 128 kbps, right?

I noticed that 320's I uploaded DL in that format -- and with original tagging -- if it exists -- which is why it'south so important to tag your textile you lot put up for DL.

It's astonishing how many people put their original music up for DL from various services -- simply then don't tag it... so if the file isn't properly named with the artist and track title, it'south possible to find some not bad track on your hard drive down the road and have no thought who they heck it is... and that is deplorable. (And has happened to me on a number of occasions, really.)

MP3'due south for me. No one has said they sound bad...

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Originally Posted by theblue1 ➡️

It's amazing how many people put their original music up for DL from diverse services -- but then don't tag it... and so if the file isn't properly named with the creative person and track title, it's possible to find some slap-up track on your hard bulldoze down the road and accept no idea who they heck it is... and that is sad. (And has happened to me on a number of occasions, actually.)

own't that the truth. i ever tag stuff even if i'm not making information technology bachelor for download right away. it takes moments and one time it'due south washed it's done.

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FLAC or wav. mp3s are garbage and no professional person uses them

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Originally Posted by shanabit ➡️

I wouldnt go through the FLAC converting crap myself

Information technology'south really piece of cake in Foobar2000. Y'all only select the WAV file and do "Export". You can also assign a hotkey to that function so you can just press Ctrl-E. It works for multiple files too. Y'all tin also edit the metadata (title/artist/date/ect) in Foobar2000 including attaching a JPEG or PNG prototype.

It's really not difficult at all.
People can play the FLAC'southward with VLC.

Or, if you don't like Foobar2000 for some reason, you can use Brazenness with the FFmpeg module running. Y'all simply choose "Consign" and select FLAC as the output.

FLAC settings are much much much more than simplified compared to MP3. With FLAC, simply select the highest compression setting. Then choose sixteen-fleck or 24-fleck. That's information technology.

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Originally Posted by fastlanestoner ➡️

FLAC or wav. mp3s are garbage and no professional uses them

In that location's at least 1 ex-professional in your very town who uses them with no qualms -- when appropriate. For distribution of a file that's strictly for playback and where bandwidth considerations are of import, I have no issues using a 320 kbps mp3.

At 320 kbps, very, very few people can correctly identify the mp3 from the wav original in a true double blind comparison. And if that's not expert enough, of course, in that location's FLAC or AL, which bring the file size down to about 55% or so of the wav size.

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With regard to FLACs and ALs -- as long as you take the codec on your automobile and a histrion that recognizes it, they're similar any other format, seems to me.

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i meant no offense, merely the just reason I meet fit to apply the mp3 format is out of necessity. i.e. when the client wants a quick bounce, etc.

for purposes such every bit soundcloud, in that location is admittedly no reason to apply an mp3 if the uncompressed file is available. you always want to put your best foot forward.

those sites usually compress anyhow, so why add more on peak of information technology.

perhaps i should have been more than articulate!

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Originally Posted by fastlanestoner ➡️

i meant no offense, but the simply reason I come across fit to use the mp3 format is out of necessity. i.due east. when the client wants a quick bounciness, etc.

for purposes such every bit soundcloud, at that place is absolutely no reason to use an mp3 if the uncompressed file is available. you lot always want to put your best pes frontwards.

those sites ordinarily compress anyway, so why add together more on elevation of it.

maybe i should have been more articulate!

Homies gotta stick together. All good here.

I've argued everything from politics to audio online for nigh a quarter century (before the world wide web, I was active on the old dial-upwards BB scene, Compuserve, local BBs, I was fifty-fifty a beta tester for AOL)... and there is one thing I've institute that can really hang a guy and his opinions out and that is an inadequately qualified statement.

That's why -- when I'm on my game, anyhow -- you'll typically see lots of weasel words in what I write: most, many, about all, unremarkably, seldom, almost never, few, almost none, etc.

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