MP3 Export Sounds Horrible.
This has never happened before, but for some reason when I export my file to mp3 the playback is horrible. The original playback in Musescore sounds amazing, but the mp3 export sounds like an entire orchestra was recorded with a single mono mic that was set in the middle of the stage. There's no crispness, no panning, well hardly, the reverb is strong, it just sounds horrible. It's like it's exporting to 8 bit or something.
Again, this has never happened before, and I know it's supposed to sound exactly the same as it does on Musescore playback, but, it doesn't.
What could be causing this?
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I found there was one single corrupt drumset measure and fixed it. So I'm retrying the export. I'll update if it fixes it or not.
Nope. Makes no difference.
I don't hear anything...
There would not normally be panning within MuseScore. Unless perhaps you are using a custom soundfont set up that way? It's possible that customization doesn't apply to MP3, I've never tried. In order to understand, we would need you to attach a sample score, tell us what soundfont(s) you are using, and otherwise help us reproduce the issue you are hearing.
In reply to There would not normally be… by Marc Sabatella
I cut the reverb a little bit on the synthesizer and somehow it worked. Everything is panned and I can hear the individual instruments again. There are 45 parts to it, so maybe with that many parts and too much reverb, it couldn't handle it. But seems fine now.
Using MS4 on a Windows10 machine, mp3 playback sounds crummy, muddy and dead when using Grove Music Player (the Windows10 default player) even at a high bit rate. Using windows media player was far better, not perfect, and exporting as a flac file was close to the original with media player. I have no idea why one mp3 player has so much poorer playback than another.