Would it be possible to improve the sound quality of the Flashplayers? When prelistening to soundfiles I can't really tell if the quality of the soundfile itself is so bad or if the poor performance is due to the aliasing artefacts produced by the high compression rate in the preview files (it sounds even worse than on myspace where the files are compressed to 96k - so I guess it must be something like 64k).
I know that Soundsnap has a lot of traffic and that increasing the quality would lead to more traffic, straining the server and so on but for a professional soundsite like Soundsnap the quality of the preview files should at least be 128k imo.
Hi Simon,
The compression
Hi Simon,
The compression rate is 128k. But you are right that a lot of the time the conversion to mp3 is done poorly and it degrades the sound. This is because of the converter we are using and not the compression rate.
I will be looking into this in the future, but not immediately, because we are quite busy developing some cool new functions and improving some old.
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