Lukynumba7, post: 18281, member: 1744 wrote: So first off, why would I want to degrade the music I mix (because personally I am a 320 kbps or lossless music kinda person)?
320 is wonderful for us DJs to play on, but all my online mixes have been 192. With Mixcloud, I’ll do 160 to make their 100MB limit.
Now why does MC force you to downgrade? It protects them from the RIAA and such. If you’re offering CD-quality music online for free, thus costing sales to labels, they’ll shut you down. Period. They could very well shut me down if they wanted to, but they don’t simply because labels know they need the DJs to support…so they found the happy balance in us posting mixes as long as we’re not making money on them.
MC has ad banners on their site, which means they make revenue on them off the mixes we post. They force us to downgrade partially to avoid liability (since they are now not CD quality), but it also helps in other factors like server bandwidth. It’s also why MC doesn’t allow downloading.
You should use MC and other sites like them as extensions of yourself, but get your own website to post those high-quality mixes on. I’ve said it over and over why DJs should not think a Facebook page, file share sites, and SoundCloud/Mixcloud is enough. With your own site you can post those mixes in the 320 you want, and thus use MC to lead people to your site.
As for how to downgrade, Xor said it. I record my mixes as WAV, make the 192 version for me, then make a second conversion for MC. I use dbPowerAMP Music Converter.
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