Okay... What darn file format...

[bogie]

Took a handful of CDs and ripped 'em to wav files. Turned around, and played 'em (via pcdj) - I've played files offa this laptop before without too much bad strangeness, and this was just....

YECH.

I musta screwed SOMETHING up... The bass sounds horrid, and the whole mess sounds like something dropped a load of concrete in the back seat.

[mikebw]

What did you use to rip your songs?

Are you sure your playback app doesn't have some EQ settings turned on?

I'm pretty sure that the quality of a WAV file is variable too, so maybe go back and check the details.

> Took a handful of CDs and ripped 'em to wav
> files. Turned around, and played 'em (via
> pcdj) - I've played files offa this laptop
> before without too much bad strangeness, and
> this was just....

> YECH.

> I musta screwed SOMETHING up... The bass
> sounds horrid, and the whole mess sounds
> like something dropped a load of concrete in
> the back seat.

[steve_r]

What type of drive did you use to rip the cds? I just ripped a few cds to wav files the other day, first using my DVD drive. The results were disgusting, a few tracks were ok, but the rest were horribly garbled and totally unusable. I tried reripping them using my CDRW drive, and not only did it go a lot faster, the ripped tracks turned out perfectly.

Just something to think about.

Steve

[bogie]

These were all done on the laptop's DVD drive. I guess I'll try the desktop's drive next - it's what I used before.

[joker]

Some ripping programs are definitely better than others. I suggest you use EAC (exact audio copy) and rip in high security mode. It will take longer to rip the cd but it is worth it.

> Took a handful of CDs and ripped 'em to wav
> files. Turned around, and played 'em (via
> pcdj) - I've played files offa this laptop
> before without too much bad strangeness, and
> this was just....

> YECH.

> I musta screwed SOMETHING up... The bass
> sounds horrid, and the whole mess sounds
> like something dropped a load of concrete in
> the back seat.