As a suggestion, it might be worth making it clearer that the preview is lower quality than the downloaded sound.
It makes sense to do lower quality previews for the reasons you mention, but before I read this in the forum, I was certainly under the impression that the quality of the preview reflected that of the download.
In fact I went to another site where I actually bought an effect that I thought was higher quality than similar ones here. For me, it was a one-off purchase, so it's less relevant to this site, but for your own benefit it might be worth considering putting the fact somewhere more prominent, in case people wanting larger numbers of sounds don't realise either.
May I begin by first appolagising to Tasos for a possible overcrouding of the 'a new soundsnap' topic. No spamming was intended. I was not thinking about myself; 5 free downloads a month, whilst a slight pane, is manageable. I was mearly thinking about the impact it will have on the site's traffic, though I guess that remains to be seen. I, personally, am just a hobbyist who likes to either download sounds or just record my own and mess around with them a bit, and save the results only to my own computer. I don't think I will be uploading here, though, as to receive money for my sounds to me is immorral; I won't go on about this again as I already mentioned it in the other topic! But I thank Tasos for preserving the 5 free downloads so that the hobbyist isn't penalised and forgotten about. However, I am still not totally for this model on the grounds of what will happen to the site in a recession, and from time to time, if possible, I think we might need some statistics to be published to see what impact, if any, is being felt.
I would be a bit more convinced, though, if the preview function was a bit more obvious. I am a blind user of this site, and in spight of help from community members; Thanks! I just cannot see that preview function. I tryed it with one of the samples tagged 'politics'; I can't remember which, the closest I could see was the 2 format links forWave and MP3, I clicked MP3 and on the download box I clicked open instead of save, returned to the page and low and behold one of my free downloads was down the tube! Tasos, could you please make the preview function a bit more obvious in the shape of a link so that I don't have to waste downloads in order to listen to a file and decide if it is what I want?
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matt
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