Platinum Notes Usage & Comparing Before & After

Thanks for the reply, I download wavs & mp3 320 Kbps. I’ll output to wav & convert to apple lossless. I just put a recent album through Platinum Notes & I could notice a big difference this time, it sounds like exactly what you described, flattening the EQ taking away the highs & I like it. I also tried the Festival template which I like too, sounds like it takes a little less away from the highs. You may like it if you haven’t tried it. I don’t know which one i’m going to use but which ever I go for i’ll check through each track after to make sure it doesn’t sound worse. If it sounds worse i’ll disable the Multiband Expansion because it sounds the same as the originals dynamics only with less volume so they’ll all have the same levels.

I can’t hear a difference between lossless or mp3 320 Kbps but I’ve got the space & I think just incase there’s a difference to some people with certain equipment i’m safe using lossless. Other than the negative size difference it all displays the same in Traktor, album art & tagging but I had to install Quicktime to get apple codecs to work. I would recommend mp3 for DJ use if someone asked me but then i’d explain with Platinum Notes needing to do a re-encode i’d rather it not recompress mp3 twice so I decided to use WAV to lossless & mp3 to lossless even though it’s then a bloted mp3, at least it hasn’t been compressed twice. There still probably wouldn’t be a noticable quality loss lol. I agree LAME is the best MP3 encoder. I use my laptop solely for DJing & my desktop for my entire iTunes collection. I convert any lossless files to LAME mp3 with Foobar2000 for my desktop iTunes collection.