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Offline Robmeister

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Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« on: January 12, 2008, 09:16:05 AM »
Are any of you familiar enough with Napster and/or MP3 maintenance to help me here.

I ripped 4 CD's for my MP3 player....2 on one day...and 2 on another.  The songs from 2 of the CDs play much lower volume and it seems lower quality.

I suspect that in choosing the settings I may have selected a lower quality bit rate or somethin'.

In Napster, next to the songs there's a little icon that is a different color next to the songs I ripped on a different day.

Is there a way that I can simply "equalize" all the tunes within Napster so that they all play at the same volume/quality...or do I have to re-rip them being careful to choose the same settings for all the CDs

thanks in advance
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2008, 09:19:56 AM »
Duhhh....

2 of the CDs were ripped as a WMA file and the other 2 as MP3 files.

It's the WMAs that are not as loud....

NEW QUESTION:

HOW DO I CONVERT THE WMAs TO MP3s?   RE-RIP?
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2008, 09:28:30 AM »
Yep... delete them and re-rip as an MP3.  That way you get the same quality as your other MP3s...
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2008, 09:36:26 AM »
Thanks, Rob!

I went online and found a WMA converter...didn't want to shell out the $40.00 so I chose the FREE TRIAL.

It converted them .........but truncated them to 30 seconds each...LOL

I'll just re-rip
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2008, 09:38:10 AM »
Sometimes best solution is the easiest one...
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2008, 10:03:29 AM »
SUCCESS !

My Napster didn't have the "MP3" plug-in to rip from OLDER CDs
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2008, 11:36:15 AM »
windows media player and winamp both do good ripping jobs too!
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2008, 07:54:49 PM »
Rob...you may want to check out MP3 gain  http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/  it is a fantastic program I use to equalize all my MP3 volume levels.  Nothing bothers me as much as listening to music and one track coming on louder than another.

Addendum...look into Soulseek  http://www.slsknet.org/   i use it for nearly all my downloading needs.

Good Luck!
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Re: Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2008, 08:18:40 PM »
Quote from: Kyfho on January 19, 2008, 07:54:49 PM
Rob...you may want to check out MP3 gain  http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/  it is a fantastic program I use to equalize all my MP3 volume levels.  Nothing bothers me as much as listening to music and one track coming on louder than another.

Addendum...look into Soulseek  http://www.slsknet.org/   i use it for nearly all my downloading needs.

Good Luck!

Coool....thanks, K.
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