Ok, it's not that bad. I have had some problems here and there which is fine as they seem to be going through growing pains. However, I was greatly annoyed to discover that they alter mp3s that are uploaded. I don't mean the obvious re-encoding but the volume level is dropped. I think they RMS normalize all the music they have which means that all the tracks played should sound more or less the same loudness. However, what happens is that my mp3s are 6-7db quieter than what they should be. Keep in mind that a 6db increase is perceived as twice the volume. There is no mention of this anywhere when you go to upload music. I had to accidentally discover it. So, all the time I have had free downloads available through them, people have been getting inferior versions of the tunes. EVERY musician pays for somebody to 'master' their music which is basically carefully maximizing the loudness of the music. Good amounts of money are spent on this process only to have it compromised with their system. But, it's okay. It just means I will have to host the mp3s and at a higher bitrate because I can! This is how it should have been all along anyways. So, just go to gabino.org and then to music to find them.
