coffeencigs

i want to upload some of my songs and sessions on youtube. for me the most important thing is the audio quality. but whatever i try youtube always makes it sound shitty.

i get good results when i upload a HD video, and select 720p for HD playback.. but hd is not necessary for a song..

i found a bunch of videos with 320kps audio streams and just SD Video..

i sent messages to the uploaders but none of them answered

maybe someone here knows..?!?
i want to upload some of my songs and sessions on youtube. for me the most important thing is the audio quality. but whatever i try youtube always makes it sound shitty.

i get good results when i upload a HD video, and select 720p for HD playback.. but hd is not necessary for a song.. 

i found a bunch of videos with 320kps audio streams and just SD Video..
i sent messages to the uploaders but none of them answered

anybody with some experience on this?
thank you very much


youtube-quality-of-audio-streams

It all depends on which codec you use. I've had pretty good results using h264, audio/video and filespace-wise.

Could also be that youtube itself uses a shitty codec for playback, don't know.

It all depends on which codec you use. I've had pretty good results using h264, audio/video and filespace-wise. 

judge it here, (although not youtube :);
http://vimeo.com/7779416
640-480 video
160 kps
25 mb sourcefile

Could also be that youtube itself uses a shitty codec for playback, don't know. 

It doesn't make any logical sense, but youtube's audio quality is tied directly to video quality... there's a handy chart on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs

In other words, you have to upload "HD video" if you want the audio to be HD too. If you ask me, it's a tragedy that YouTube has become a place for uploading just music...you'd be better off with soundcloud or something.

It doesn't make any logical sense, but youtube's audio quality is tied directly to video quality... there's a handy chart on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs

In other words, you have to upload "HD video" if you want the audio to be HD too. If you ask me, it's a tragedy that YouTube has become a place for uploading just music...you'd be better off with soundcloud or something.


"If you ask me, it's a tragedy that YouTube has become a place for uploading just music...you'd be better off with soundcloud or something."

You are right. i use soundcloud on my blog. but on youtube people will eventually find your stuff on their own. i dont think there are a lot of poeple typing random-words.blogspot.com and see if they can find some good tunes.

Hi, I found that the most important is to upload to youtube a 44.1 kHz audio. I uploaded once a video with the audio at 48kHz, and that was a catastrophe. Changed only the sampling rate setting to 44.1, re-encoded, and that was fine. You must convert it yourself to 44.1 before uploading it to youtube.

http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=132461

Hi, I found that the most important is to upload to youtube a 44.1 kHz audio. I uploaded once a video with the audio at 48kHz, and that was a catastrophe. Changed only the sampling rate setting to 44.1, re-encoded, and that was fine. You must convert it yourself to 44.1 before uploading it to youtube. 

YouTube. Quality of Audio Streams