Weak sounding MP3s?

[UA_Iron]

Exact Audio Copy
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Lame Codec Download
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Lame_Encoder.htm

It might be a little tricky at first, but once you go through it and everything you'll have it down. The CD info from freedb.net is really convenient - and you can specify how it names and tags your mp3s.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

And you buy your blank CDR's from Office Max in 100 spindles
where they are free with rebate ?

I buy mine from Walmart. On my 2nd pack of Memorex. Havn't had any problems with them yet and they're reasonably cheap.

I have a ton of shit to burn that I keep forgetting to do. I'll probably use up half that spindle once I get around to it.

 

[Firebaall]

Naw...

All you need to do is normalize your mp3s to a standard level. Lots of people don't know what they are doing when they encode.

Try this free proggie out:

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

Quick, easy and free.

As much as I hate Apple, they have one of the best free programs out to rip and create mp3s from your cds. iTunes. There's a windows version too.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

 

[seizer]

I pledge my soul to NERO...burning ROM. That is a good all purpose burning program. Make sure that when you steal your music that its bitrate is fairly high, atleast 128kbs...preferably 192.

If you download single songs at a time, you are gonna get a lot of mixed qualities and formats and its gonna sounds like shit in your car. I recommend stealing full albums at a time...reason being...well, full albums are all ripped with the same quality, so you get consistency, and full albums are generally higher quality because they are taken directly from the source. Where as singles that you download one by one are passed around like saggy slut and are just plain bad once they get to you.

Just my two cents.

 

[blut wump]

It should have nothing to do with the bitrate. Most rippers will have some option to enhance, adjust or normalize the playback volume and a lot of people don't use it.

You might be able to re-import the mp3s into iTunes or Lame and enhance the volume before writing them out to audio cds. You shouldn't lose any quality if you import them from mp3 to wav and then write out the wav files as audio tracks. You can always delete the wav files afterwards to get your disc space back.

EDIT: when you rip your own for an iPod, or whatever, make sure to play with any options to enhance and normalize the volume until you find a setting which suits your playback deck or headphones. It should have no bearing on quality.