My suspicion is that, however you folded down the music into mono, maybe the left and right channels were not adjusted for volume, so the effect would be similar to peak limiting upon playback. The difference between stereo and mono WAV files (essential knowledge) ()

Here's a very basic article that talks about stereo files with identical channels: But I'd also like an option that will make these songs to come up on shuffle in JRiver if I'm listening to the rest of my stereo songs. Will I get phasing issues listening to it through my two speakers? Does it ruin the mono effect? I can simply flip off a speaker, and I have. I just feel.weird about ripping it to stereo. I'm honestly thinking the professionals distributed mono CDs on a stereo music format, expecting people with stereo systems to be playing this, and made the CDs accordingly. Mono file: the bass is very muddy and the rest of the instruments can sound suffocated Should I rip my collection in Stereo or mono? I'm listening to a Stereo ripped and my mono ripped iterations of the Mono CDs. The Beatles In Mono is just the mono song doubled in both channels of its CD. All (I'm generalizing) systems are stereo. I also know a stereo track is two 705kbps channels, combining to be 1411.Īll CDs are stereo (Red Book Standards). I don't care about file size difference between stereo (1411kbps) and mono (705kbps) files. I did this to avoid bad effects that can result in listening to the same thing in two speakers (IF they're out of phase and I don't know how well these CDs channels were both manufactured). I have a 705kbps mono file for every song on every album. Selecting one channel, using that and putting the Rip settings to mono. I have done so in AIFF, using the dbpoweramp Channel Mapper option.

I have ripped all 9 Beatles mono albums from the Mono Box Set. I've tried to find my answers in forums, but just can't!

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