Like many of you, I'm currently in the process of saving/exporting my entire library.
I've been exporting in WAV format since the sound quality is much better. Besides a smaller file size, is there actually any reason to export as MP3 instead? I remember reading something like mp3 sounds better on phone speakers or something like that, but not sure how true that is. Wondering if I'm missing something obvious.
Wav is always better.
Just keep wavs. It’s the highest quality audio format. You can always convert to mp3 later on if you wish
I’m not sure who is using MP3 format. Back in MP3 and MP4 era predates iPhone, those devices have small storage, MP3 able to squeeze a song into 1-2MB, so we could store more songs. The downside was there were loss in audio qualities.
MP3 quality is a whole new world since then tho and the size of the file of a wav might not necessarily be worth the space for some people at this point. Spotify will make ur wav sound worse than an mp3 of the same bounce off Suno
it's bc Suno's exports aren't REALLY wav. Not like they export directly from hardware recording. They're basically mp3s converted to wav, so it is going to sound worse vs. the original output (the mp3) on Spotify, due to how they convert their files for streaming.
Sure but also mp3s are pretty good quality now it’s not like in the Napster days
It’s just file size versus audio quality.
The wav Suno outputs is just a converted mp3. It’s not actually wav
I’ve seen this comment before - can you expand?
Does Suno actually generate an mp3 and then if you download the WAV version, it just does so E conversion to increase the file size but not the sound quality?
What they’ve said is false. The wav has a wider range of frequency you can hear if you really listen, which is useful for mastering as it gives you a slightly wider frequency range to play with. On my high end studio headphones, you can clearly hear the compression between the two.
The issue with the quality of sound that everyone who says this reports is that suno has likely been trained on highly compressed 128/kbps or 256/kbps(such as on YouTube) tracks and that’s what generated.
One of the perceived benefits of v5 is higher songs quality, but if you’re using personas created on v3-v4, or you’re uploading MP3’s instead of wav, you’re gonna get artefacts eventually as they are baked into the file.
mp3's big benefit was portability. Smaller file size.
It does work ok on low-quality speakers — like phone speakers, cheap earbuds, built-in computer speakers for the most part. Most listeners for the format and hardware won't be able to tell a huge difference in mp3 and flac — because of the hardware limitations. You don't get full quality from phone speakers.
if you have the space, wav is much better.
First months i dl both. But I had lot of songs with the vers double so I needed to edit i just took wave. When im ready i have a converter so I could get 320 mp3.