We can deliver so many digital goods so quickly! An MP3 of a song composed in a bedroom far, far away finds its way across the globe before being clicked upon and downloaded by you in seconds. This isn't just convenient, it gleefully forces us to rethink the artist-listener (and expanded prosumer-wise, remixer) relationship.
I was ramening (since everyone else says "noodling", I'm being different) through some piano sketches in Ableton Live and realized how simple it is for me to render WAV output with a limiter at the end — saving a bunch of mastering steps — then trim the beginning and end, encode into MP3, then upload to SoundCloud. It could only be faster if Live had an easier waveform editor and allowed direct export into MP3! Still, much swifter than my "old days" of having to go through realtime analogue hoops to deliver the music.
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*applauds* This is beautiful. You are so awesome.
Call me stupid, lazy, inefficient, whatever, but I just upload WAV files to soundcloud
@Ravenelle
@Matt You're none of that. I do that too on occasion, but my upstream bandwidth isn't as fast as I'd like it to be. However, that does bring up a good thought: http://bandcamp.com automatically handles the MP3 encoding.