Originally Posted By: ffreniere
Hello all -

First post for this newbie. I liken working with computers and software to learning to drive an 18-wheel rig: it's cumbersome, it's slow, I'm lumbering, there's a lot of gears to navigate, a lot of mistakes, etc. etc.

So I'm muddling thru Windows BIAB 2016 w/ 2017 upgraded RTs.

I created a song on my laptop (Windows 10), converted it to .mp3 and e-mailed it to my PC (Windows 7) to play on iTunes, but it sounds faint and dull on the PC.

The mp3 version sounds great on the laptop, tho the file is identified as .WAV and not mp3 as I had specified at file conversion. What gives?

Thanks.


The point is: if you are converting at too low of a mbps the conversion process will remove/destroy too much data in order to make the file that small. That's the likely re4ason your are hearing a muddled sound. the original .WAV file contains "all" (we might say) of the data and sounds clear and full. Converting a .WAV file to a .MP3 file removes a certain amount of data, and hopefully not so much that most human ears can tell a significant difference, in order to make the file smaller so we can safe storage space, email it, etc... What we are attempting to explain are ways you can convert the .WAV to .MP3 without going so small that it sounds dull.
BTW, if you right click on the file, it should open a menu, then click "Properties" in that menu you will see the 3 letter file extension which is the file type. Ex; MySong.mp3 or MySong.wav. I say this because if you have a file that is designated .WAV and sound good that's because it is not the converted .mp3 file. Try the conversion again but this time during the save process change the file name to MySongMP3Format. Now look at the line below the file saving dialog;... click on the drop-down arrow at the end of that line and see if that allows you to choose what type of file it will be and/or what the kbps will be. It will be 128kbps, 192kbps, 256kbps, 320kbps, etc. Anything below 128 (for music) will not sound good at all. I think 128 is approximately 10% the size of the original .wav. A removal of 90% of the data while attempting to keep the sonic fidelity. 256 usually sounds good to me and makes my song files small enough to email and store a whole bunch of them.

Would you like to tell us what program you used as your mp3 converter? Or, would you like to try installing Audacity and the LAME codec?

Does the noise in your head bother me ?