I wouldn't conclude that just yet.

On a DAW on your machine, you will hear differences.

If you upload your song to some song host or YouTube, they all compress the file, but it's unknown exactly how much as this depends on the size of the file. At the least they will probably compress it to create an .MP3. Thus any difference in audio quality will be less for anything you listen to (or download back) from one of these services.

Did you read my post in Tips and Tricks? It's the first sticky.


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