Top 10 Video Sharing Sites for Highest Sound Quality
By jkne John K. Neon Wasilewski
If you want high quality sound after uploading to online video sharing sites websites, going for YouTube every time may not be the best way to go. If the audio quality takes priority over anything else, this list should help decide which service to use.
I uploaded the music video ‘Zero G’ to some of the most popular video sharing sites that do not require any special registration. Some sites have restrictions on the types of videos you can upload.
The resulting videos are embedded primarily in order of sound quality. If the audio quality is equal at any stage, they are placed in secondary order by: how intrusive advertisements are, speed of loading and other site features.
I have worked extensively with audio and have been producing music for over 14 years and have to the best of my ability put them in highest sound quality order. I’ve taken into account: high frequency clarity, punchiness, solidity, bass integrity, colouration and compression artefacts. This top ten is simply showing how good the audio codec settings are for each video site.
Sound playback on some of these sites is so good I consider it to be hi-fidelity and near-CD quality.
The Top 10 Video Sharing Sites for Highest Sound Quality for Music
Rated out of 10.
Highest Quality
Vimeo (9) – Clean interface, Best customization
Dailymotion (9) – Slightly higher sound quality
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/13961384
Viddler (9) – Hi-fi sound
http://www.viddler.com/explore/galaxycode/videos/1/
Medium High Quality
Break (8) – Punchy
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/2/Zero-G-by-Galaxy-Code-665095.html
Blip.tv (8)
http://www.blip.tv/file/1753474
Yahoo (8)
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4610387/12329125
Metacafe (8) – Invasive Pre-ad
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2400808/
Medium Quality
MySpace (6)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=52020873
Imeem (6) – Ad overlay and slightly less sound quality
http://www.imeem.com/people/LKBX_DJ/video/oDAIdbXH
YouTube (5) – No ‘high quality’ option available. HD button requires reload of video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQK69cVYHIQ
Other mentions
Revver (8) – Took nearly a month to be accepted
http://revver.com/video/1519249/zero-g-by-galaxy-code/
Low Quality
Google Video (4) – Lower quality than YouTube, allows videos over an hour long.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7575666236026207041
Veoh (3) – pitch bends the sound
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v17460619DGPPYPs7
File Specifications
The uploaded file contains stereo audio at 44100 samples/sec and 16bit resolution per channel compressed with WMA2 averaging 96 Kb/s. Music recorded by Galaxy Code.
The video was taken with a low resolution mobile phone camera which automatically highly compressed the video data. The edited, finished and re-compressed video was uploaded at 320×240 with WMV3 at 782 Kbps bitrate.
Duration 1:53, File size: 11.8 MB.
Tubemogul was used to upload to multiple video sites. Good time saving tool.
Conclusion
Vimeo, Viddler and Dailymotion have the best streaming sound quality with Vimeo coming out on top because of the interface. These top three have high video quality and quick load times.
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May 7th, 2010 at 4:05 am
Vimeo is mutilating my audio quality as bad as YouTube now. I just uploaded an original music video with original music in MP4 AAC format, stereo 44.1 320kbps, and it’s coming out distorted on Vimeo, YouTube, and DailyMotion. The exact same MP4 is turning out fine audio-wise on Metacafe and Viddler. I’m testing out the other sites you listed right now.
I suspect Vimeo, YouTube, and DailyMotion are using the same audio encoding/transcoding library or presets that’s causing noticeable distortion on lower frequency bass notes…
August 6th, 2010 at 9:31 am
I think Mejuba.com is the worlds best!
Unlimited storage it’s completely free. No monthly limits or quotas. You can upload a whooping 1GB PER upload!
Videos are stored in their original formats and are kept unmodified for backup.
I also like that you can geo-tag your stuff so it shows up on a map. And you can search for stuff on
the map – that’s cool!. Even Google Street View is now implemented – eat that Youtube, Vimeo etc!!!
As the only site i know of it uses a Windows Explorer like navigation with folders – super easy to
use – even has drag and drop!.
It’s free, fast, nice design as SO much better than the other video sites.
August 10th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
What about aresmusic.net?
August 10th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
http://aresmusic.net
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