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Okay so I was in the process of catologuing my 7500-odd MP3s and burning a few of my favs onto CD. These songs have all been accumulated from various sources, formats, etc, over the past 5 years. So they were not all pulled from the same person or with the same ripping software.
I was recently listening to one of the discs I made and I noticed quite a change in volume/ambience of one song to the next. It wasn't the case with all of the songs, but maybe 20% of them on the disc were significantly louder than the others I deemed "normal" at the volume setting I had chosen.
Getting to the point, is anyone aware of a program that can 'fix' these mp3s to an 'average' volume across the board, versus the volume variety that I seem to be encountering? Also, is 'normalization' have to do with what I am referring?
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quote:Originally posted by Futurama Guy: ...Getting to the point, is anyone aware of a program that can 'fix' these mp3s to an 'average' volume across the board, versus the volume variety that I seem to be encountering? Also, is 'normalization' have to do with what I am referring?
Yes it does. If you're interested in permanently changing the files you are using. But taking an MP3, converting it to an uncompressed format, normalizing/upsampling the volume, then applying MP3 to the results is pretty much not going to be worth all the effort. Especially if the original was of marginal bit-rate to begin with. But most semi-decent sound tools (you may need a separate program that will convert MP3s) can do this thing you ask.
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One of them being GoldWave.
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Like UM said, iTunes has this under preferences enable "sound check" I believe it is called. It works pretty well. Also you can use the uber-cool music store....
iTunes also goes to 11.
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