On Wednesday 21 July 2004 22:52, Mark Pellegrini wrote:
First, for those of you who have never heard of it,
the Mutopia project is
to songs what Project Gutenberg is to text. The offer lots of public
domain midis that are great additions to the project. In the past, I've
converted them the hard way (tying the sound card of one computer to the
sound card of another). I'd record it into wav, encode it as ogg, and then
upload it.
Why not uploading the midi as well?
(1) The 2 megabyte upload limit - I discovered through
trial and error that
uploads are capped at 2 megabytes. For full-length songs, this is way, way
too small. A 3-4 minutes song in ogg format at average quality is about 5
megs. I have to set my encoder to its lowest settings (0 or 1 out of 10) to
get it under 2 megs.
Angela has said (rightly so) that full length songs belong at Wikisource,
not on Wikipedia itself. So the above changes should be made there.
If Wikipedia has full length texts of, say, national anthems, why wouldn't it
have full-length recordings of them, too?