What is the best sample rate and MP3 Bitrate setting to upload scores to the musescore website with the highest quality and the least compression?

• Feb 9, 2021 - 10:45

I have a large score that i am uploading and when i exported the audio to my laptops files, i exported it at 48000Hz and 320kBit/s and it sounded great.
However, when i uploaded it to the musescore website with the same audio settings (I have to upload it from the musescore program because i am using 2 soundfonts), it was very compressed and lost a lot of quality.
So what should i set the sample rate and mp3 bitrate to so when i upload it to the musescore website, it has the best audio quality and the least compression?


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In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Yes. I upload from the Musescore program through ‘save online’, I tick upload score audio because I use 2 soundfonts in this score and when I upload directly from the website it doesn’t use the additional soundfont. In preferences I have my sample rate and mp3 bitrate saved at 48000hz and 320kBt/s. What should I change that to so when I upload onto the website the audio has the least compression with the best quality?

In reply to by Dinesh Jayadev

No, I don't, but it is easy to check, by downloading an MP3
Edit: Bitrate 128kbit/s seems the default, on musescore.com as well as in MuseScore's export settings

Edit 2: changing those preferences does not change the bitrate of the MP3 that gets uploaded -> this to me clearly is a bug, please report it in the issue tracker

Edit 3: hold on, might be #275339: MP3 bitrate is not 'immediatly' saved when export

Edit 4: no it is not, so please report it in the issue tracker

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

I don't see how the MP3 size would have anything to do with the soundfont size.

if I were running a score sharing website, I certainly ouldn't allow people to upload gigabytes of audio. I'd choose one sample rate and standardize on it. So to me it's a completely logical design choice.

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