Just found your website. Good stuff! PicSee Productions is looking for original music for use in film festival video. The audio must be uncompressed. Final Cut Pro does not handle MP3 files well. Is it possible for an artist to provide a link to their website that would allow download of an uncompressed audio file?

If you click on the “profile” tab of any artists page, you can contact that artist (by email) through the site. Sometimes artists provide details on the profile page (website, contact info) but at the very least, every artist here can be contacted through the site to the email they registered with.

That said, you could always create an “uncompressed” version of any mp3 file. I could import a file into Garageband, then bounce it back out as a WAV/AIFF. It might be less than ideal (since it was already compressed once) but it gets one past the file import/format issue of other applications (like FCP).

Quote: every artist here can be contacted through the site to the email they registered with.

unfortunately, a large percentage of artists do not have an email contact on file here. (It’s a long story.)

Meanwhile, if it is just a matter of file formats then, as MC Jack suggests, you can easily upgrade formats to AIFF, typically with little or no loss of fidelity from the mp3.

If, on the other hand, want the original non-lossy mix from the artist, then you have to roll the dice with the contact info.

Hope this helps,
VS

Uploading uncompressed audio is just wasteful.

Compression doesn’t have to mean quality loss however (like zip), FLAC files store the identical waveform as the original WAV/AIFF in usually about 50% of the space.

Individual app support unfortunately a bit lacking for FLAC’s, but as with WAV’s or AIFF’s, once you have a full quality version you can produce whatever you need.