MP3-FAQ.org is the FAQ site for the Usenet MP3 groups in the alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 hierarchy. The FAQ represents years of the collective experience of hundreds of visitors to the MP3 groups on Usenet. The FAQ offers suggestions that other visitors to the hierarchy have found useful. The FAQ is intended to save you time and reduce your frustration.

What you find here are common-sense suggestions, not the law.

The Quick Reference List

How to make your experience better (and everyone else's too):

• Use a high quality encoder.
• Use a 0-file or an .nfo file to inform other visitors.
• Use meaningful subject headers that are not too long (under 80 characters).
• Check your MP3s before posting them.
• Test post in test groups.
• Post from 472500 to 315000 bytes (7500 to 5000 lines) per segment.
• Crosspost into the appropriate decade group (if you know it).
• Don't post binaries in the discussion or request groups and vice versa.
• Enjoy the music!

Credits

Special thanks to ©Longhair, to Steady and Rock&Roll for the first absm.* FAQ, and to all of the members of absm.d who contributed to this document.

Excerpts may be freely distributed provided that:

•  No money is exchanged for the content; and
•  Attribution to www.mp3-faq.org is included.