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Hi.
I'm unsure if this is the right place for this topic, but I couldn't find any threds for musicians.
Anyway, I'm an artist and am planning on releasing my music on Spotify shortly. At the moment I have some music on Soundcloud and the other day I noticed that one of my tracks got some weird artifacts on one part. I first thought this was due to the normalization, but after normalizing myself and lowering the limiter during mastering and using dithering etc. I still experienced the same problem. I read the following on Soundclouds help section:
"Sometimes our transcoding system can create audio artifacts, as we transcode all tracks to 128 kbps mp3 for streaming playback. Uploading a lossless or high-quality lossy file will usually reduce these to a minimum, but unfortunately there's not much we can do for the handful of individual tracks that are still affected."
The reason why I'm asking this is of course because I don't want to get artifacts on my tracks on Spotify. So my question is, how does the transcoding work when tracks are uploaded to Spotify? Will I still get the same artifacts? Are there any good tips in general on how to eliminate these?
For reference, here is the song I am referring to, artifacts occur at around 1:26 http://soundcloud.com/music-donkey/butterflying
Thanks a bunch,
Sebastian
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