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Originally Posted by FreddySneaks

Hi, I have just recently started on with torrents a few months ago, and have been converting some of my recordings and posting them on Dime. Last night, the admin banned all 5 of the concerts I posted with the following message:

Without more details on the original format and at a bitrate of 192 kbps this one can't fly here:

http://wiki.dimeadozen.org/index.php...sy_Audio_Seeds

So I'm wondering what I did wrong. This is the information I'm posting on the conversion:
Source & Location: DSBD source, location Unknown
Conversion: JVC TDV661 Tape Deck to a Tascam SSR1 (44.1kHz stereo with 192Kbps bitrate)>CDWave> flac
Renamed and Organized via CD Wave Editor,
converted to flac via Trader's Little Helper

However, I have hundreds of recordings, most of which I did not tape myself, so I'm not always going to know the provence of a particular recording unless I was standing there taping it myself. Also I'm not sure how the 192kbps bit rate is so low? I'm converting from .wav to .flac. hmmmm

The mod knows nothing about audio formats or calculations, and you may be confused as well. I don't believe you are recording 44.1 @ 192. It is much more likely to be 48 Khz. 16bit/44.1 Khz = 176.4 KBs. 16bit/48Khz = 192. . Now I'd use mediainfo to see if my flacs are redbook [16/44.1], they are likely 16/48 as well, meaning they cant be burned to cd, so he's lucky in that he should ban your uploads but not for being lossy, but because they are actually to a video standard [48Khz]. In that case DbPoweramp could be used to properly dither the files to 16/44.1

for more info on audio calculations:

http://www.audiomountain.com/tech/ca...culations.html

"PCM Stereo Calculations

Formula:
Bits per sample x samples per second = bits per second x 2 channels = bits per second of stereo / 8 = Bytes per second of stereo x 60 seconds = Bytes per minute of stereo x 60 minutes = Bytes per hour of stereo.

16 bit, 44.1 KHz, Stereo: [176.4 KB per second; 10.584 MB per minute; 635.04 MB per hour] (Note: This is the standard setting for CD audio files)
16 bits per sample x 44,100 samples per second = 705,600 bits per second x 2 channels = 1,411,200 bits per second of stereo.
1,411,200 bits per second / 8 = 176,400 Bytes per second x 60 seconds = 10,584,000 Bytes or 10.584 MB per minute of stereo.
10.584 MB per minute of stereo x 60 minutes = 635.04 MB per hour of stereo.

16 bit, 48 KHz, Stereo: [192 KB per second; 11.520 MB per minute; 691.2 MB per hour]
16 bits per sample x 48,000 samples per second = 768,000 bits per second x 2 channels = 1,536,000 bits per second of stereo.
1,536,000 bits per second / 8 = 192,000 Bytes per second x 60 seconds = 11,520,000 Bytes or 11.52 MB per minute of stereo.
11.52 MB per minute of stereo x 60 minutes = 691.2 MB per hour of stereo"