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Subject: Re: Digital Compression - was New SSM
From: "Robin" robin_parmar_sound
Date: Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:05 pm ((PDT))
John Hartog wrote:

> Has anyone else found that preparing a track in advance for the MP3 128 k=
bps compression by filtering complex high frequency content above around 14=
 kHz in can help avoid bad sounding MP3 artifacts?
>

This may be true in edge cases. But generally it is regarded that compressi=
ng first will only result in transcoding later... something to be avoided.

I convert everything to FLAC locally and upload that way to conserve bandwi=
dth. At least then I know I am not responsible for any lossy compression.

-- Robin Parmar







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