Hello all.

I've uploaded a track on my new site. If people right clcik it and save as they will download it.

If they left click, a new page loads up with apples quicktime and the track buffers then starts playing.

Can someone tell me what is the downgrade in quality if the track is played in this way. If I've uploaded a 320kb mp3, will the quicktime player play it at this quality or does it downgrade it to a lower level to speed up playback?

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It will download the original file, and play it from a buffer on the hard drive. Same quality.

Dude, it is only being played in quicktime because thats what you have associated with mp3 files. People who don't have quicktime installed will have something completely different.

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Originally posted by Beyer It will download the original file, and play it from a buffer on the hard drive. Same quality.

So tracks that are buffered and played online have no reason to be of a worse quality? I say this because I've heard people say they don't like to play tunes through myspace or putfile for example because of the downgrade in quality.

So this is bollocks?

Echosystem, my mp3's are associated with itunes and before that they were associated with real player but I have visited many sites where the quicktime player boots up

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Originally posted by G-Con So tracks that are buffered and played online have no reason to be of a worse quality? I say this because I've heard people say they don't like to play tunes through myspace or putfile for example because of the downgrade in quality. So this is bollocks? Echosystem, my mp3's are associated with itunes and before that they were associated with real player but I have visited many sites where the quicktime player boots up

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how did you even make it onto the internet?

myspace uses a flash mp3 player... the songs are stored on a server in 320kbps or whatever format theyre uploaded as, BUT they get played back through the flash player at like 64k or something bandwidth friendly like that. Hence, quality is lost. It is not the same as what youre doing, you're just letting people access the mp3 directly.

Quicktime has a browser plugins, the MIME type ".mp3" is associated within your browser to that plugin.

ok but the quicktime player buffers the track in a matter of seconds. Its an 11mb file. I'd have assumed that to buffer a file of this size would take longer than a few seconds, hence why I thought it might be downgrading quality to speed up the buffer.

It appears I was worrying for nothing though so thanks for the help

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You do understand what a buffer is right?

It doesnt download the whole song... it downloads enough of it to play the entire song, without having to stop, AS IT DOWNLOADS. obviously it works out your connection speed first.

Eg. if youre on 56k, and want to listen to a 20mb file, it would buffer (download) like 18mb of it before it played anything. If you were on a 1mbit connection, it would only buffer maybe 200kb, as your internet connection would be faster than the bitrate of the song.

yeah i know but the quicktime player has a little progress bar underneath that I thought showed how much had been buffered. It shoots up all the way to the end in seconds which is why I thought it had buffered it in seconds.

or is it causeI've played it before and its stored in the cache?

main thing is I know it aint downgrading quality so i know people who play my tracks are hearing it the way it should be heard

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