Should I Upload a Wav or Mp3 on Cd Baby

Why do Music Distributors like CD Baby and TuneCore forces users to convert WAV files

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Hullo,

Im currently gearing my first major release on CD Infant Pro and im confused why my highest quality WAV files have to be compressed to 16 bit 44 khps. Its stripping my sound and mixing down and im not interested in physical CD copies (which has to be 16 bit) but only streaming services like iTunes and Spotify and so i should be able to go along my high quality bits. Am I missing something? I dont desire my projection to sound amateurish pleae aid guys. If their is whatsoever expert music distrbutiors that allow yous to proceed high quality wav files to upload please share.

I use FL studio btw and the states 32 bit which sounds amazing

Well if it'south CD Baby I'm guessing it's 44.1kHz, right? And it explains why they want sixteen $.25 as well.

For streaming, every bit far as I know, Spotify doesn't go above that range of frequencies at xvi bits. At least not far higher up it. And as for that bit depth I'g betting that FL Studio is doing 32-bit float, which I'thousand as well betting neither Spotify nor most playback systems support.

And then, yous're not losing much by having it converted from 32-flake bladder to 16-bit fixed unless your music really uses and needs that range and users then listen to it with appropriate equipment.

Does that brand sense?

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Originally Posted past Silverfoxx ➡️

Im currently gearing my first major release on CD Babe Pro and im confused why my highest quality WAV files have to be compressed to 16 bit 44 khps. Its stripping my sound and mixing down and im non interested in physical CD copies (which has to be 16 bit) just only streaming services like iTunes and Spotify

perhaps the streaming services do non desire to expend bandwidth streaming your massive 192k/32bit files? In authenticity, with Spotify, customers with a premium membership hear 320Kbps. Which is considerably

less

than CD quality. It'south like a 'good' mp3. Regular customers get a paltry 160kbps.

I call up

Tidal

may stream at total CD quality. If someone wants to hear higher res than that, they by and large take to purchase and download hi-res files and have some special equipment to play it back.

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then i should be able to go on my loftier quality bits. Am I missing something? I dont want my project to sound non-expert

plenty of great professional-sounding records were released and sold millions of copies at 16/44.1. If your music sounds 'amateurish', it won't be because of the scrap and sample rate y'all are

submitting

your files at. Which as far equally I can tell, is yet greater than what well-nigh people listening will probably hear it at.

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I use FL studio btw and us 32 bit which sounds amazing

I don't know if any streaming service sends total 32 fleck files to its subscribers. I doubtfulness it very much. Even if they did, the converter hardware on virtually phones, iPods, laptops and and then on, tops out at CD rates.

Lives for gear

Spotify and almost all other streaming services convert your files to lossy formats (Ogg Vorbis and AAC are most common). Tidal and HDTracks stream lossless/hi res.

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Originally Posted by joeq ➡️

If your music sounds 'amateurish', it won't be because of the chip and sample rate you lot are submitting your files at.

This.

If you can hear a significant difference between 32bit and 16bit so something is broken. As long as you dither down to 16bit it volition sound fine. Samplerate conversion is where you lot stand up to have the greatest hit to sound quality every bit not all SRCs are created equal. It's well worth using a high quality SRC or to hire a mastering engineer to do what they exercise best: ensure the best possible transfer to the delivery formats using the best tools for the chore.

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The thing that pisses me off is that apple and others now say..give u.s. your best..24 bit 96 or 24 44.1 or 88.2..because of some future consideration of streaming..now my clients freak..I gotta explicate they gave me 24..44.1 files to mix..on this I now gotta make extra files for the lufs and sample chip rate of streamers and make xvi..44.i for hard re-create CD'Southward...the customer then goes ..it isn't "iTunes quality" and then I have to explain they ask for that but what they spit out is lower quality than a hard CD.PIA

For those who have never thought about the math concerning streaming services or don't understand it, here's a little explanation about the difference between 16 bit, 44.i kHz wav files and pop streaming codecs like mp3 or some of the others.

The highest quality streaming services, as someone posted earlier, superlative out at about 320 kbps. The amount of data transferred via stream in 1 second is 320 kb.

Let'south do the math on a stereo moving ridge file:

sixteen bits × 44.1kHz = a scrap rate of 705.half dozen kbps × the number of channels (ii) = a flake rate of 1,411.2 kbps

That'south nigh 5 times as much information per second.

Exercise the math on a stereo wav file at 24/96 and you come up with a bit rate of iv,608 kbps

24/192 = 9,216 kbps

Extrapolate this over, say, Spotify'due south millions of users and that's a helluva lot of bandwidth. Information technology's not difficult to understand why no streaming site uses hi res audio for streaming services. At nearly 10 mbps per song per customer, they might every bit well ditch the streaming service and go into the ISP business.

Are there any resources on GS (manufactures, etc.) that explicate digital theory for newbies? If not, there should exist.

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