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DrJustice
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject:
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I'm planning to put some tracks online, but I'm out of webspace... In your opinion, where's the best place to get your mp3 files hosted these days? And while I'm at it, what would be your recommended mp3 coder?
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jksuperstar
Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 2503 Location: Denver
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:
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I've seen people use soundclick.com to host...seems to be the new replacement for "mp3.com". Don't know how Howard feels about hosting here to increase the visibility of the site. Maybe even sell mp3's to generate revenue?
LAME in my opinion is the best encoder. Use the --r3mix switch for a good clean encode (VBR 192kbps, plus some anit-aliasing filters, etc). Yes, some people actaully sat down & did a huge number of qualitative & subjective comparisons of various settings, then grouped them into a bundle...known as r3mix. "OGG Vorbis" kicks the crap out of MP3, especially for lo-fi/small file encoding. It's just gaining popularity, finally finding it's way into some hardware mp3 players, etc. |
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elektro80
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Joined: Mar 25, 2003 Posts: 21959 Location: Norway
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject:
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You can in fact upload files here. We are hosting files on a pretty fast server with lotsa room.
If you are using mac, then iTunes / QT or various unix tools can be used.
You upload files here as attachments to posts.
You can try this right now. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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seraph
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:40 pm Post subject:
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elektro80 wrote: |
You upload files here as attachments to posts. |
yeah but you have a 10 Mb limit _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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elektro80
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:
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Hmm.. yes.. that is true.. We gotta discuss this with Howard and do a little math. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Joined: Feb 08, 2004 Posts: 489 Location: behind the mustard
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject:
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we're always looking for new artists at noiseusse.org and we have plenty of space. Send me some links to a few of your tracks and I'll give them a listen. We only put out music we feel represents the label but we're pretty open. |
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DrJustice
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2114 Location: Morokulien
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:
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Thanks for all the responses!
SoundClick seems OK for the purpose. Not out to promote anything, just share some music with the community. I'll try setting up an account at SC for starters. Got no Macs here, so I'll check out LAME for the encoding.
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Joined: Feb 08, 2004 Posts: 489 Location: behind the mustard
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:33 am Post subject:
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By te way, LAME is illegal in the states. The Fraunhofer algorithm is copyrighted so any software that uses it without paying for it is illegal. But only in the states. Land of the free. |
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jksuperstar
Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 2503 Location: Denver
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:21 am Post subject:
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Another reason for OGG
However, that also isn't fully true. As I understand it, Fraunhofer had released it's source code for free, back in the late '90's. Then they changed their minds, and began collecting royalties on use of that source code. LAME used to be a *patch* against the Fraunhofer source, and thus fell under this madness. However, LAME was recoded in 2000, so it does not use the Fraunhofer source, and was completely coded by using the MP3 standard as it's reference. The Fraunhofer Source and algorithm is copyrighted, but the MP3 standard is not. |
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:46 am Post subject:
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Thanks, that's nice to know. |
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elektro80
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:49 am Post subject:
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What about just installing iTunes for the PC? Then you get a pretty decent encoding engine and you donĀ“t have to worry about what is free or not? _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Michael Chocholak
Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Posts: 305 Location: Cove, Oregon, USA
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject:
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SoundClick is nice because they have no track limit, allow for multiple artist pages, and allow you to 'grab' mp3 tracks that may be posted elsewhere on the web in just a few minutes rather than having to upload from scratch. Streams are no hassle but they make folks register before downloading which puts a lot of people off. They also don't allow deeplinking on free accounts.
ic-musicmedia allows deep linking even on free accounts & you get room for 10 tracks. I think BeSonic allows for deep linking on free accounts too. _________________ Que la musique sonne - Edgard Varese
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seraph
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject:
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Michael Chocholak wrote: | they make folks register before downloading which puts a lot of people off. |
I am one of them even if I am a registered member and have songs posted on SoundClick:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/seraphmusic.htm
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