Janie, I'm not sure how this happened, either - and it's hard to imagine it could be just from converting from WAV to AIFF or mp3 or vice-versa - but the track of my song "Raise Your Voices In The Song" that is on the new Mudcat CD "Until The Dark Time Ends" sounds very different from any of the audio files of that song that I sent in.
In particular, somehow the parts that are supposed to crescendo -- and did in all the audio mixes I have of the song -- turned into muted diminuendoes (which pretty much nullifies the main sense and feeling of the song).

It's too late to do anything about this for the new Mudcat CDs -- which are, on the whole, wonderful! and which represent a lot of hard work by Bradfordian and michaelr and several others and are well worth the price! -- but I really would like to figure out what happened, if only to prevent similar SNAFUs in the future.

(As an aside, if anyone bought the "Until The Dark Time Ends" CD, I would be happy to email you that track in its original form. At least that could be informative re this discussion so you could see (hear) what tech issues we're talking about.

I have also noticed that when I post videos on YouTube the sound is often noticeably softer on that site than in the recordings I uploaded, even though I'm listening to both on the same system. Not sure how that happens either.

Genie