[Nessie044]

I wound up purchasing a Gen 3 4GB iPod last night for $25. While I'll never be a fan of iTUnes and the like, this was a cheap and easy solution. Once I get the hang of working with these proprietary units/software, it'll be alright.

Like a lot of others on here, I'm not a real big fan of iTunes, but there's a cool "hidden" feature that will allow you to get more beef out of your stock Victory audio system.

If you feel the output volume on your system is a little lacking, the following will give you a noticeable bump when using an i-Device:

In iTunes, go to your track listing. Do a left-click once to highlight the first track in the list. Then do a right-click on that track. This will give you a pull-down menu. Left-click on the "Get Info" option. This gives you apop-up menu. There are several tabs on this menu. Click on the "Options" tab.

At the top, you will find a slider control named "Volume Adjustment" that goes from -100% to +100%. The default is "none". Move the slider fully right to +100%. BAM! You just kicked things up a notch.

The downside of this procedure is that there is no universal command, so you have to boost the tracks individually. If you have a lot of tracks, this can be a little time-consuming. To continue with each track, click on the "Next" button to go to the next song on your list.

When you're all done updating, click on the "OK" button, re-sync your device and get ready to rock.

If you want to test this out to see if it's worth it before commiting to updating all your tracks, do this. Pick any song in your list and add a duplicate from wherever the files are stored on your computer. Leave one with the default "none" volume adjustment and the other increased to +100%, then toggle back and forth between the two. You should hear a substantial difference in volume. Your output volume is not actually going to double, but it's a nice bump. And it won't cost you a penny.

You can also wring out a little extra by using the equalizer presets. Different music will benefitfrom use of different EQ settings. Ihave almost nothing but hard rock and metal loaded on my iPod Touch, but I used the "Dance" preset because I found that gave me a little extra oomph and clarity overall. If you really wanted to take the time, you couldoptimize everyone of your tracks with different EQ settings. If you want to do it globally,keep the "None" option in the iTunes equalizer preset section and experiment with different EQ settings on your i-Device while it's plugged into your bike.

After you've done all this, try different Bass/Treble settings on your Victory audio system.

 

[Nessie044]

Not sure if you are on a Mac or not, maybe so and that is why you had to change settings on each song individually. That or maybe an older version of iTunes.

Or it could just be that I'm a Portagee. Sometimes we like to do things the hard way. LOL.

Thanks for the tip. This will come in handy in the future.

 

[Nessie044]

How does one convert Itunes files to Mp3 files? I'd like to download some onto my GPSwhick I hear off helmet bluetooth ve the bike speakers all the time.

From your song list, click once on the song you want to make an MP3 version of. If you want to convert more than one song and they are listed sequentially, click once on the first song, hold down the "shift" key on your keyboard, then click on the last song you want to copy. If the songs aren't in order, you can cherry pick them by holding down the "control" key on your keyboard and select them individually.

Once you have the songs selected, across the top of the iTunes screen you'll see "Advanced". Click on it and from the pull-down menu, select "Create MP3 Version". That should do it.