This is mui confusio.
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Originally Posted by Bacchanal
He wanted me to burn him a CD of it and I did. Now, I downloaded the album so all the tracks are in mp3 format. The CD plays fine...but for some reason when you play it on his computer just sounds like shit.
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OK. You are confusing terms here, so I need to know: you have the CD as well as the MP3 version. Does the CD sound bad when played on the computer, or just the MP3s? Or is it a CD of MP3s?
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Originally Posted by Bacchanal
I've tried re-downloading the CD (and others) to his computer through the same service that I use and it still sounds terrible.
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So the MP3s were from someone elses rip of the CD? This is pretty important.
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Originally Posted by Bacchanal
Is there anything to be done simply, or is he going to have to take his computer somewhere and have it looked at? Any advice on the matter would help
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Don't take it anywhere. We can figure it out here.
Sounds cards normally will send the MP3 signal through the same mixer port as WAV files. Check the sound card "Playback" mixer settings (not the record settings). If the WAV mixer is cranked, take it down a notch.
What I am guessing at is that the MP3s were ripped incorrectly. Somebody set the volume too high when they did it and the audio signal is distorting, so when it is encoded to MP3 it is saving the distorted version of the file.