Do I have to convert my mp3 file to mp4 by adding blackout video track using handbrake ?
Use torrents, lemmy is not meant to be a file sharing service. We can’t afford the hosting costs for video and music.
I disagree, I am sorry, I really do. This MUST be supported.
1 terabyte of storage costs 5$ per month, 3 terabyte of data costs 3$ per month. You can host my 800kilobyte music file the same way you can host my 800kilobyte image and my 800kilobyte video It cannot be hosted elsewhere as page load means cognitive break from the original message, it ruins the message.
paywall the feature I don’t mind I will pay it forward
pict-rs supports video, search these terms
[media.video] allow_audio = false PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO__ALLOW_AUDIO = trueMusic is just a video file without a video track and video already works !
Agreed
It’s all of big that seemingly forgot how sound files work. I tried uploading a sound file to Facebook. Wouldn’t work. They wanted a mp4 with a video track.
I upload a lyric video to YouTube, but I don’t have a band so I just write the lyrics and have a robot help me.
Honestly, as easy as it is now, I really truly feel sorry for artists who are trying to make a living. I just do it for fun, but man-- the whole music industry and everything else is likely to be automated within the decade
(I just discovered suno like last week)
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I wanted to just post an mp3 file to Lemmy. But it doesn’t work I remembered there was a website called “bandcamp” I tried that You had to go through the whole rigamarole of creating an account then you upload the file but no, it wants a flac file not an mp3 and it wants a title image, but 1024x1024 is not good enough, it’s minimum 1400x1400 so I just upscale my image in some other software
and finally I could post, the link to a bandcamp, that apparently is only good for 200 playback ?! And they probably have ads and stuff too and are going to get people to subscribe and whatnot
All that just to post an mp3 file like I did here
https://lemmy.ml/post/21313857/14254237
Why doesn’t Lemmy just take mp3 files when it does mp4 video files ?! It’s weird and annoying !
I don’t think Lemmy does take MP4 files. Where have you seen that?
here
and another example that
it also does sound just fine, there was no sound actually, weird So no sound of any kind on lemmy ?Those are, as you noted, audio-less WEBM files, not MP4s (though it may have automatically transcoded a video into that format). It’s essentially a more-efficient form of animated GIF, not really a video in the sense that non-technical end-users likely think of it.
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I agree it’s not ideal; just offering an alternative that also allows lyric embedding.
Pretty sweet tunes, lol. I dig it
Thanks I liked “Time is Money (Not actually in the style of the B-52s. Was just the last style prompt I used, lol)” it feels true.
Yes, it does seem posting the whole ready made mp4 is easier than starting from a sound file.
I think it’s because all the tech bros forgot that just because you can have a video track doesn’t mean sound files are useless !
Well, I do want to figure out my own music visualization engine. One of my friend was a collector of those karaoke songs and he had a big suite of cool music visualisation software to go with it. I’d going to try and dig this up.
If you can scrounge any software, you should tell me what it’s called because that sounds cool.
And thanks. I wrote those lyrics originally as a sort of slam poem or something - just venting my frustrations with the way our life has been designed around us.
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Catbox isn’t ideal because a lot of countries and ISPs block it, but it allows uploading of arbitrary files. MP3 files should work fine.
Or if you want, something like SoundCloud or (from a quick Google—I don’t know how reliable this is) Vocaroo.
Yeah, it will eventually break, anything external is not ideal. Youtube seems like the only reasonnable option but it’s so tedious, they ask a bunch of question and it is going to break some day. Some day youtube will break external viewings from other websites.
