Help Jane Recover From $75 Worth of Bank Debt By Buying Her Albums 2016
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Congratulations, Mojave Jane. :3
On a semi-related note, it would be cool if you had, like, a secret bonus edition to your albums where there are tracks that only show up if you pay <$3 or summat. Like, the album flows fine without them, but the experience changes and you get more out of it with the secret tracks.
I mean, the ideal would be to actually sell physical copies, and I would invest in your doing that should you ever decide to do so, just so you know, but that's a ways off.
Anyway, I realised it was tolerable up here before, say, noon, so I ducked upstairs to buy your stuff. I don't have much, but hey, it's something.
You should probably export and upload in WAV and just keep MP3 copies as reference material instead. It will subtly improve the sound if you reduce the number of generations involved, particularly with respect to compression.
I personally upload everything in 24-bit 96kHz FLAC because I am incredibly anal-retentive about sonic detail and it takes less time to upload than similarly hi-fi AIFF or WAV files which are fucking enormous. It also means that if I want to promote my music through leaking it via Perfectly Legal Channels, I won't be breaking any rules and it's, like, instant ratio improvement.
Bit depth is how many bits each sample can hold. Most CDs and MP3s are 16-bit, each sample able to contain sixteen bits worth of sound information in each modulated pulse that makes your speakers make sound.
Sample rate determines how many of these samples occur each second, as well as what the highest frequency sound a file can reproduce is: A 44.1kHz file reproduces 44,100 samples a second, and can reproduce pitches where the vibration is less than 44,100 times a second for that reason.
Bit rate determines the amount of information that is actually being conveyed each moment, however, and how much space the samples are collectively allowed to take up in a file. Usually, this is a product of bit depth multiplied by sample rate multiplied by channels: 44,100 samples times 16 bits times two channels in a stereo file is 1,411,200 bits each second, or 1411.2 kilobits per second.
As noted above, the average MP3 is way less detailed, and it compromises by cutting out redundant sounds with a special compression algorithm. This is an imperfect process, and it can screw up the sound of certain instruments, especially in the high range like cymbals. AAC and OGG use different algorithms with different tradeoffs.
This makes sense. Still, getting the best transfer that you can is important.
That said, low fidelity has its own virtues, particularly when the degradation is part of a material process as with cassettes. So I get the point of it being part of the mood. But again, starting from a master with the most character possible—which in the case of digitally produced music generally means the most detail—is important to me, personally.
^ Not really. Just set your export to WAV, put the files in a special folder, upload, then make MP3s for yourself and ditch the masters.
It is a good word.
AC3 is interesting for similar reasons, and is used in similar audio-video contexts. I sometimes see DVD sound rips in that and DTS (the main Surround Sound format) on torrent sites.