WHATS THE RECOMMENDED WAY OF PRESENTING MUSIC SAMPLERS ON MY WEB SITE?
OK, setting aside the legality issues discussed elsewhere (shakey ground here), you want to put up music on your web site so that other folks can get an idea of what is on a CD. You figure this is doing your part to increase the profile of anime or at least anime music. Of course, we do get into the copyright issues. One idea, which is not recommendable, is to use an extreme compression factor so that the sound quality deters folks that want a freebie. But how much is that? Certainly, anything above 128 kbps is very-good to CD quality, so that is out. The fact that 64 kbps is considered bearable by portable MP3 device users indicates that even 64 kbps is still too high. Then the recommendation is something more along the lines of 32-48 kbps. There is another problem with this idea besides trying to find a bitrate that is low enough to deter copiers, if you are trying to show how good a CD is, lousy quality sound detracts from your efforts. Ok, if detering copying is the issue, then how
