Josie, you mentioned YouTube. My experience is that the sound is made considerably worse by them. It becomes more highly compressed, and sometimes out-of-sync with any accompanying video.

One thing I learned is never to compress an already-compressed audio file, if you can help it. Better to return to the original quality and redo it to create the intended final compression.

I recall when a technician made a video for me, he compressed it to make its size no more then 100 MB, because he said that was (at the time) the threshold for YouTube before they compressed it even more.


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