Audacity Forum

both played through the computer Windows media player

recorded tape onto my computer. Play the wav file - vol is quite high. Play the exported mp3 format and the volume is very low and I have to turn it right up to hear the sound.

Why does the sound level on an mp3 come out so much lower than the wav file. My recording in the wav is about right but to hear the mp3 version I have to really crank up the volume control.

I am converting my old tapes to digital. An album recorded at 43 minutes in length, exported into mp3 seems to be 43 mb. Is that a typical file size? It seems very large to me.