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Kinetiik

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Does soundcloud poop on everyone's tracks??
« on: June 29, 2016, 01:48:17 am »
It seems that everything I upload to Soundcloud diminishes significantly in audio quality. The high end turns out sounding like complete shit. I have tried uploading things in 44k 24bit WAV, 44k 16bit WAV, and 44k 16bit IFF but nothing seems to prevent this.

Suggestions??
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Re: Does soundcloud poop on everyone's tracks??
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2016, 02:08:11 am »
That's just the low streaming quality. Not really any way to prevent it. YouTube is better about this.

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Re: Does soundcloud poop on everyone's tracks??
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2016, 11:03:31 pm »
I've been having a problem with SC, too. My track is always much quieter.
As for your highend... Do you have a -1db ceiling after mastering? Could be your problem.
Soundcloud always destroys my highend to a certain point tho.

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Re: Does soundcloud poop on everyone's tracks??
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2016, 01:55:37 pm »
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Re: Does soundcloud poop on everyone's tracks??
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2016, 02:37:55 pm »
Almost certain stream quality is 128kbps mp3 on soundcloud, no matter the quality you upload. Apparently there is a way to replace this with the original file with some coding addons/scraping websites...
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Re: Does soundcloud poop on everyone's tracks??
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2016, 02:56:37 am »
Soundcloud's compression algorithms make me respect good mastering jobs so much more. It's like the NS10 of compression.