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pcthrowaway
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Redesigning SoundCloud
I'm not sure what bitrate they use, but if it's 128kbps+ the difference in quality should be small to nonexistent.
shmerl
on Dec 14, 2014
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Once you encode lossy from lossy (even with high bitrate) the quality will be degraded in some way.
pcthrowaway
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Ah, you mean if the source files are already compressed they get transcoded to mp3, which degrades them more.. gotcha. I assumed most musicians would have the sense to upload an uncompressed format.
shmerl
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Yes, but there are cases when the only source is already lossy.
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