mp3's disallowed

MP3's are no longer allowed to be posted on the forum. Midis, sibelius, and finale files will be the main files of interest. I will put add a new section soon so that a user can have his or her own folder of files. However, due to bandwidth problems, this may have to be a paid section.

I assume that they are not banned if they are on a separate server...

Oh no its not banned, I disabled it. I think a meg is plenty for midi, right?

That'd be plenty. I can't remember the last time I looked at the size of a midi file but I'd guess it's under 20k. Much nearer 10. At a guess. :(

My largest midi file is Stefan's 'Colour Ball', and that seems to be about 207 kb. * grins *

Ah, if I remember rightly, that's a fairly large piece. Either large by length or instrumentation... I can't remember... but large, anyway!

Heh...both if I recall correctly!

Hmm you can make a 60 second medium quality mp3 in that range: 200-250kb... :)

I think it's not a problem, i have my own host now, but why removing mp3s? if someone is not managing his 1 MB properly it is his particular problem ;P: if he wants to clutter it with one file he should be aware of consequences. And yes, midi files are better for bandwidth, but sometimes you need to post a 10 sec sample of sth... and then?

Of course, as i said, for me it's not a problem, just merely pointing out.

Yeonil

Yeh - I think it really shouldn't matter either way, unless you are worried about users uploading copyrighted material?

It's more to do with the fact that if a single MIDI file is downloaded, the bandwidth used is nowhere near the amount that would be taken up downloading a single MP3 file (in most cases, that is). Overall it's just much more efficient to limit file types to those which tend to be smaller.

I don't like posting midi files, just because they make your compositions sound horrible. They don't sound real whatsoever. But that's ok. Understandable that you can't post those big files.