Then lined all three songs up and compared. And I did the same thing on the Linux mint machine. I got out my Windows laptop, and I used Audacity to remake one 128 version of one song. When I played those back everything sounded like it should. I went back to Amazon and downloaded the originals and put them directly onto the Mp3 player. Finally I did something I don’t normally do. I tried to lower the volume, and I even tried to change the EQs but made anything sound better. I realized that my hearing wasn’t feeling right. But two days ago I downloaded some new stuff and when I was listening to them. But I figured it must just be the way these guys decided to do things in the studio. When I played both bands back, something just didn’t feel right too me. The other day I had downloaded two new albums by two bands I am very familiar with. I listen to mainly Hard Rock, Metal, Alternative, and some Celtic music. But through many listenings I had decided that 128 is alright for the equipment and the condition of my hearing. I want whoever reads this to realize that I understand that the higher the bit rate = higher quality and the lower bit rate = lower quality.

After getting the tags the way I like them, I just copy and paste the songs onto my player. If it’s windows then I used Mp3tag, and if it’s in Linux I use Puddletag. Everything is on default.Īfter I get done doing that I load all my mp3s into a tag program. Over all of these years I’ve never touched any of the encoder settings. Next I export them as a 128 constant bit rate files. Then Unzip them and after that I load all of them up into Audacity. Usually when I buy mp3s I download them from Amazon. I use the Sandisk Sansa Clip + and I have rockbox installed. Last night I upgraded it in hopes that it would somehow solve my problem. I always did this in Windows and in the last year or so I started doing it in Linux.Ĭurrently I’m running Linux Mint 17.3 xfce 64 bit.

I think I’ve been doing this for about 5 years or so.

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