Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance

• Napster and/or MP3 Music Maintenance by Robmeister on 12 Jan, 2008 09:16
• 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
• #1 by Robmeister on 12 Jan, 2008 09:19
• 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?
• #2 by BaldRob on 12 Jan, 2008 09:28
• Yep... delete them and re-rip as an MP3.  That way you get the same quality as your other MP3s...
• #3 by Robmeister on 12 Jan, 2008 09:36
• 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
• #4 by BaldRob on 12 Jan, 2008 09:38
• Sometimes best solution is the easiest one...
• #5 by Robmeister on 12 Jan, 2008 10:03
• SUCCESS !
  
  My Napster didn't have the "MP3" plug-in to rip from OLDER CDs
• #6 by Alexander215 on 13 Jan, 2008 11:36
• windows media player and winamp both do good ripping jobs too!
• #7 by Kyfho on 19 Jan, 2008 19:54
• 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!
• #8 by Robmeister on 19 Jan, 2008 20:18
• Quote from: Kyfho on 19 Jan, 2008 19:54

  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.