MP3 Utility - MP3Gain

[Valiant23]

I've recently put all of my CD's onto my HDD, and when I put all of my music on a continuous shuffle I found that they had been ripped at different volume levels, so sometimes I could hardly hear a track (My Big Mouth off Be Here Now was one of the quietest) so I'd turn my speakers up. The next song would be (eg) Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit and it would blast throughout the house, as well as giving me a heart attack.

I got sick of it tbh so I went looking for a decent utility which would change the MP3 file so that playback was all at one level (as the Media Monkey either wouldn't work or I couldn't get it to work).

I found this;

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

Tired of reaching for your volume knob every time your mp3 player changes to a new song?
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume.
MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear.
Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.

It took a while for it to analyse my library but it has worked.

It also warns you if you're setting the volume too high and will get distortion (or clipping).

Highly recommended, imo.

[Kotp]

Sourceforge are great at Audio tweaks , I think theyve got some program called Soundforge which i used a while back for various stuff i was doing and it was fantastic.

[chala]

Cheers Val, I've been getting similar problems, so hopefully this will do the trick