Quality after uploads?

[JKG1069]

I've just noticed, everytime I upload any mp3 onto myspace or facebook, the quality changes pretty bad (well, noticeably to people with an ear for it) and it messes the EQ'ing up a bit.

So, my question is: are there certain settings you need to have to maintain the same quality you have from an exported song, uploading to myspace?

I never learned anything about bit rate or bit depth or anything so, that is what my blind wild guess is.

Or, what I think it might be is poor EQ'ing. Let me know if any of you encounter/ have encountered the same problems in the past

[Breed]

Some players will compress your mp3 even farther if it needs to which will degrade the quality. If you want to learn more about that then I would suggest looking into books by Bobby Owinski(probably spelled that wrong).

[Chris-V2]

I haven't noticed major issues, but of course there will be some compression. EQ changes, I haven't noticed much- where you listening on different speakers?

All I know if they host your music for free, I can't really complain much about that.

[B0UNC3]

At 1/9/10 03:22 AM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Some players will compress your mp3 even farther if it needs to which will degrade the quality.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that the player on myspace will always stream at 96kbps (for faster loading) no matter what the kbps originally was. So theres not really anything to do about it.

[InGenius]

Bobby Owsinski is a good recommendation, he details the compression and EQ shift for digital media pretty well. Basically, expect to lose the highest and lowest end and mix the mids a bit lighter than you normally would because mids end up sounding muddier than usual on low bitrate streams. I don't really mix for this anymore because I use the soundclick player instead which allows both a high and low bit stream and I don't want my higher bitrate to sound "odd" mixed to compensate for low bitrate.

[ChampionAnwar]

At 1/10/10 01:08 PM, B0UNC3 wrote:

At 1/9/10 03:22 AM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Some players will compress your mp3 even farther if it needs to which will degrade the quality.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that the player on myspace will always stream at 96kbps (for faster loading) no matter what the kbps originally was. So theres not really anything to do about it.

I like it better that way, so if people try and take your music. They don't get it fresh 320kbs.

[Breed]

At 1/10/10 02:21 PM, ChampionAnwar wrote:

At 1/10/10 01:08 PM, B0UNC3 wrote:

At 1/9/10 03:22 AM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Some players will compress your mp3 even farther if it needs to which will degrade the quality.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that the player on myspace will always stream at 96kbps (for faster loading) no matter what the kbps originally was. So theres not really anything to do about it.

I like it better that way, so if people try and take your music. They don't get it fresh 320kbs.

Yea definitely. If you're actually uploading audio thats high quality enough to matter whether its 192 vs 320 or mp3 vs wav then it can be nice not to have to render both versions. But thats kind of a standard procedure anyway to render both a 192k/32 wav and a 48.1/128 mp3. Well usually its more like 96/24 not 192/32 for the wav.