Distorted audio files after upload

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:45:56 +0000

I’ve been having massive problems with uploading audio files both here on my 365 songs project, and to the Radio Lingua server with new podcast episodes. The mp3 and m4a files worked perfectly on my computer. The process I was using was as follows:

create audio in Garageband
export aif of voice only
use Levelator to process voice audio
bring aif from Levelator output back into Garageband
send to iTunes as aac
create mp3 from aac in iTunes

I tried this at different bitrates, removing the Levelator from the process, and re-recording new files, but nothing seemed to work. It seemed that there was something wrong with the way the server was processing the audio.

After about 8 hours of trying to solve the problem, I suddenly remembered that when setting up a new membership plugin I needed to transfer something to my server using ASCII ftp rather than binary, so I set things back to ‘automatic’ in Transmit and suddenly everything is working again! I hope this is of use to someone out there who has a similar problem!

Mark Pentleton » mp3 files on server sound distorted

Distorted audio files after upload