Considering the time it takes to judge a normal track to be acceptable based on source usage and arrangement, the amount of time it would take to do something longer than 7 minutes would likely exponentially increase time to judge.

The whole idea is that the site is less restricted by cost of data hosting and transfer now, which opens up the quality and length standards to what we now have it set to. If you're going to submit a song that's as long as a Simpson's episode, you should be prepared to wait, possibly.

I am so happy about this.

Woah I totally missed this response before.. Good point. I don't think waiting is that big of an issue at this point, hahaha. I've still got songs from like 2010 waiting to be posted. ;-)

Hopefully when the time comes, the source usage will be mapped out appropriately and it won't be too difficult on the judges. Extra care should be taken on the artist's part to make sure it's not a pain by mapping stuff out. :twisted:

How come the submissions page and encoding guide still don't reflect these changes?

The translated articles need to be updated, but what exactly are you talking about with those main articles? They've been updated from day 1 of that post.

When I click "submit" in the top bar, the page still says:

The encoding guide also says:

Am I misunderstanding? I thought 192kbs was the minimum bitrate now and we could submit in 320kbs or whatever we want.

No, you just misunderstood the change. The standards & encoding guide are consistent with what it says in the original post. Those are the encoding standards right now, either 192kbps CBR or V1 VBR. You cannot submit music at 320kbps CBR, that's too high.

If your music is full enough your VBR1 will average around 256/320 anyway

To make VBR1 mp3 files, you need WinLAME

OK that's a relief. 192kbs is just really low to me.

That's not "really low." :lol: Most can't tell 192 from lossless in ABX testing.