What is the best sample rate and MP3 Bitrate setting to upload scores to the musescore website with the highest quality and the least compression?
I have a large score that i am uploading and when i exported the audio to my laptops files, i exported it at 48000Hz and 320kBit/s and it sounded great.
However, when i uploaded it to the musescore website with the same audio settings (I have to upload it from the musescore program because i am using 2 soundfonts), it was very compressed and lost a lot of quality.
So what should i set the sample rate and mp3 bitrate to so when i upload it to the musescore website, it has the best audio quality and the least compression?
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The higher the sample rate and MP3 Bitrate the higher the quality, obviously.
In reply to The higher the sample rate… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes I know, but when I upload it to the website the audio is very compressed and loses quality. So what would be the best export settings for upload to online?
In reply to Yes I know, but when I… by Dinesh Jayadev
Do you really do upload the score audio? Do you tick that box when using Save Online?
In reply to Do you sou really do upload… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes. I upload from the Musescore program through ‘save online’, I tick upload score audio because I use 2 soundfonts in this score and when I upload directly from the website it doesn’t use the additional soundfont. In preferences I have my sample rate and mp3 bitrate saved at 48000hz and 320kBt/s. What should I change that to so when I upload onto the website the audio has the least compression with the best quality?
In reply to Yes. I upload from the… by Dinesh Jayadev
Edit > Preferences > Export > Audio, there's nothing else.
I'm not sure though whether that these are only used for File > Export or also for File > Save online including audio.
Try both, then download the MP3 from museccore.com and compare them
In reply to Edit > Preferences > Export … by Jojo-Schmitz
Do you know what Bitrate Musescore.com compresses audio down to? Like for example YouTube compresses audio to 192kBt/s. So do you know what Musescore.com compresses it to?
In reply to Do you know what Bitrate… by Dinesh Jayadev
No, I don't, but it is easy to check, by downloading an MP3
Edit: Bitrate 128kbit/s seems the default, on musescore.com as well as in MuseScore's export settings
Edit 2: changing those preferences does not change the bitrate of the MP3 that gets uploaded -> this to me clearly is a bug, please report it in the issue tracker
Edit 3: hold on, might be #275339: MP3 bitrate is not 'immediatly' saved when export
Edit 4: no it is not, so please report it in the issue tracker
In reply to No, I don't, but it is easy… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm not so sure it's a bug. I don't think the site maintainers intend to provide infinite storage capacity, so it makes sense to keep all scores to a similar quality/size.
In reply to I'm not so sure it's a bug. … by Marc Sabatella
?? If you use a huge soundfont, the MP3 will be equally huge. Not following the settings is just a plain bug to me.
In reply to ?? If you use a huge… by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't see how the MP3 size would have anything to do with the soundfont size.
if I were running a score sharing website, I certainly ouldn't allow people to upload gigabytes of audio. I'd choose one sample rate and standardize on it. So to me it's a completely logical design choice.
In reply to I don't see how the MP3 size… by Marc Sabatella
The fatter the soundfont, the fatter the sound, the fatter the MP3 made from it
If it is a design decision, it'd need to be stated as such. In an issue. And after that in the handbook