In Reply to: RE: One poster said that (despite the distant weed whacker) this was the best YT sound he had heard... posted by AbeCollins on January 18, 2015 at 01:11:08:
I can't find out what the post-upload bit rate is, BUT, there seems to be a way to get the "original" audio to play. Whatever "original" means.
If you are the uploader of the video, under the video screen there is a white space with some small icons. The third from the left is a musical note icon. I never looked into it before.
If the uploader clicks on that, a new screen opens and there is an option to Play Using Original Audio. It then takes a while to re-render, which is being done.
HOWEVER, I believe that iMovie or at least the version at the time I put that up could not use Variable Bit Rate Encoding, so, I think that what I put up is Constant Bit Rate encoded. And of course iMovie (AFAIK) cannot use 96kHz. Or could not.
THAT SAID, while the finest nuances of tone color and dynamics are lost in uploading to YouTube, the notes start and stop where they do in the original hi-res audio, and to the extent that shaping a musical phrase is the foundation of interpretation--"How does this music 'go'?"--YT is a very valuable resource. On this clip you get a real sense of how Delmoni shapes a phrase, and a sense of his conception of the architecture of the piece as a whole.
JM
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