I have noticed that some of the music that I have downloaded seems to be dulled (muffled). They do sound OK when I use my earbuds, but when I use my iPod vehicle cradle, alot of the songs have very different quality. I have to turn my radio all the way up and it is still muffled. Anybody have hints to fix this?

yea go out and get the cd much better than downloading it.Because it's allways risk to download a song you never no what your going to get.

Chris b...

Also check the bitrate of the files before you d/load them. Higher bitrate should mean better quality. Check the bitrate against the file size, the higher the bitrate the larger the file.

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I find that the bitrate doesn't seem to matter all that much. What I do to bring up the volume level is bring it into Roxio's sound editor; select all; normalize; and save. This is also a good tool to repair a good song that has been chopped off abruptly at the end with a fade out. Another great tool with the creator 9 is it's big help in straightening out your files by trying to corrrectly rename them and at the same time find the audio tags(genre;artist; album...). That's a biggie in my book.