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kitphillips
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia

YOu know, the best thing you can do as a label is just putting in a DMCA request with the relevant sharing site for the file to be removed. Chances are, unless you're a really big artists, you'll only need to do it a couple of times per release.

Alternatively, upload a 128 kbps file, I get the impression that most people in the releases scene are lazy and won't re rip and upload a release which is already out in low quality.

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Darkarbiter
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Melbourne

[QUOTE][i][b]Originally posted by kitphillips [/i][/b] YOu know, the best thing you can do as a lab

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Originally posted by Storyteller
How The Music Industry Is Killing Music And Blaming The Fans

The irony of the video in the article being not avaliable in my country because of some crappy label is pretty good.

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Originally posted by kitphillips
Alternatively, upload a 128 kbps file, I get the impression that most people in the releases scene are lazy and won't re rip and upload a release which is already out in low quality.

That would be an interesting experiment. Although honestly a lot of try before buy listening people would probably be like "wow this track has a weak bassline" and not realise why so you might even lose sales.

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derail
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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Canberra, Australia

Re: [QUOTE][i][b]Originally posted by kitphillips [/i][/b] YOu know, the best thing you can do as a

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter
Although honestly a lot of try before buy listening people would probably be like "wow this track has a weak bassline" and not realise why so you might even lose sales.

I don't agree with this line of thinking.

Some producers (that is, not average listeners) might think this, if they weren't aware of the effects of a 128kb/s mp3 on bass, but they'd be in the minority.

It's not like the bass disappears when listening on consumer level/ computer headphones. If it does, the original mix had some deficiencies. Listeners care much more about "is it a good song, do I enjoy listening to it?" A good song will sound good even if it's played on a very distorted AM radio station (obviously, to a certain degree).

But yes, unless the bassline disappears completely, I can't see this being an issue at all. Average listeners don't listen to music the way we listen to music.

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kitphillips
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia

And we're (hopefully) clever enough to realise the effect of 128 kbps MP3 encoding.

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Blake_Jarrell
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Re: Re: [QUOTE][i][b]Originally posted by kitphillips [/i][/b] YOu know, the best thing you can do

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Average listeners don't listen to music the way we listen to music.

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Storyteller
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: The Netherlands

Re: [QUOTE][i][b]Originally posted by kitphillips [/i][/b] YOu know, the best thing you can do as a

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter
The irony of the video in the article being not avaliable in my country because of some crappy label is pretty good.

That's not irony, nor a video. It's an image