dazza14 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 I need to convert our existing sound files to Lossless so I can upload the tracks onto Bandcamp... How? There are a bunch of software programmes on offer but does anyone have experience in doing this so I can save myself some time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza14 Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 It's ok ladies and gents, I've been pointed in the correct direction... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramirez Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Good that you're sorted, but for future reference you should upload the original lossless master files (usually WAVs). Converting to lossless does not improve the quality - you can't put back what isn't there. Also, if you convert a lossy file to a lossless format, you risk putting that file through another step of lossy conversion, as will probably happen when you upload to Bandcamp. So, in essence - you have a lossless file (let's say a WAV) that's been converted to a lossy file (let's say MP3. Hopefully high-bitrate, but this could well be low quality). You then convert your MP3 back to WAV because Bandcamps asks for it. As I said, this does not improve quality. Its just a WAV version of your degraded MP3. This "new" WAV version gets uploaded, and then gets converted to an MP3 all over again, further degrading the quality. I understand that sometimes its the only option if the original lossless files are simply not available, but it shoud be an absolute last resort. Aled 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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