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Mp3Gain: Normalize the volume of your music

RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Games and Technology
Not sure if this is well known (we've had a lot of id3 tagger threads), but Mp3Gain is a really cool freeware app.

Basically it normalizes the volume of your Mp3 collection. Which, if you have a collection like me, really helps.

And, it does this losslessly. And you can undo the changes.

iTunes has something like this, but with this solution the volume changes are part of the file so they don't go away after a reformat and work on non-iTunes players.

Also it's open source and all that, for you people who are into stuff like that.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I dunno, I kind of like having quiet songs... y'know, quieter.

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  • ZsetrekZsetrek Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    DarkPrimus wrote:
    I dunno, I kind of like having quiet songs... y'know, quieter.

    Um, isn't that what this does?

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  • RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    What usually happens when listening to songs in my car is the quiet songs you just don't hear at all unless you fiddle with the volume. So this was pretty awesome for me. And you can leave your quiet songs alone if you want.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    How do you normalize in iTunes? I bartend and like to put my iPod on shuffle over the stereo. I hate having to dash for the volume in the middle of a drink when some album is mastered too high.

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  • RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Right-click -> get info -> adjust volume. But if your collection is in Mp3 format, Mp3Gain is just better.

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  • The CheeseThe Cheese Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    You need a player that supports replaygain though, don't you? Most portable players don't unless you're using Rockbox or something.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    RandomEngy wrote:
    Right-click -> get info -> adjust volume. But if your collection is in Mp3 format, Mp3Gain is just better.

    No, it's all in AAC.

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  • RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    The_Cheese wrote:
    You need a player that supports replaygain though, don't you? Most portable players don't unless you're using Rockbox or something.

    It does add replaygain tags, but it also modifies the global gain value, which is part of the MP3 spec and supported by just about everything.

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  • victor_c26victor_c26 Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    How well will this work with podcasts? I don't mind music, but podcasts tend to very.

    Some are really low and others are at times low and ear rapingly loud in the same podcast.

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  • RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I assume it would work fine. The ReplayGain algorithm is supposed to be pretty good about figuring out how loud stuff sounds.

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