Downloading songs

[scotty*75]

Hi Just hoping someone can help me out here.

I have music on my iphone I have downloaded from iTunes and I also have music on there I

have ripped from youtube..the youtube music plays at different volumes and is often softer than the iTunes music...can you tell me why or how to fix it?

[poddster]

Google is your friend 🙂

Look for free audio editing software there are heaps of them

[patchoo78]

I can tell you the why... When you rip songs from CDs you can choose to rip them at 320 kbps which is CD quality audio (I think iTunes rips them at this rate by default). When you rip songs off You Tube (depending on what you use to rip the songs) you can usually only rip them at 128 kbps which is way lower than CD quality... I try and go for a minimum of 256 kbps

So basically, the higher the bitrate = the better sound quality 

As for the how, Audacity is free and is a pretty good editing program 

[scotty*75]

Thanks for the info..

When converting youtube songs sometimes the volume is ok and sometimes its softer.

Think I will just buy from iTunes,the editing program sounds a bit too involved..

Took me 1 1/2 hours to take a full album of you tube compared to 5 mins on iTunes

That's worth 14.99 to me 🙂