Strings sound like crap on Youtube

[brassplyer]

I've tried numerous codecs, all seem to have the same problem. Distortion on a string section. Any suggestions?

Here's an example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=746IMlsb0No

[poisondeathray]

What audio bitrate did you upload at?

Youtube re-encodes everything with a low audio bitrate

I would find another hosting site if audio is important to you

[brassplyer]

What audio bitrate did you upload at?

In this particular case 44100 256kbps mp3

[poisondeathray]

Are you referring to the overall quality or where the audio cuts out?

It was re-encoded at 77kbps, here is your "video" , even if you uploaded a lossless flac (if youtube accepted it), it wouldn't sound much better because of the low bitrate

brassplyer.flv

[brassplyer]

Are you referring to the overall quality or where the audio cuts out?

The distortion. The audio that's there is all I uploaded. Just uploaded a short sample. For some reason it's adding extra time to the video.

And I can make an .mp3 of the same file and it sounds fine.