Level the volume of your MP3 collection
January 23rd, 2007 by jay
Well I had been meaning to post about a great tool I’ve used for well over a year now called MP3Gain. Truth be told it was actually in my “future posts” queue to be my posting. Well ironically today I saw this post on my RSS feed from Lifehacker. Anyways this tool is used to “normalize” your mp3 collection so that you don’t have some tracks that are too loud and others way to soft- you know stuff that makes you have to constantly change the level of your media player.
Since lifehacker did such a good job explaining it I’ll just let you hit that link to read all about it. But I will add that as I’ve said I’ve used that software a lot and personally recommend it to everyone with an mp3 collection. And I’ll also underscore the fact that the changes are lossless (no loss in quality) and that any changes done can easily be undone so no worries.
Another thing I’d point out is that if you care about the modify date on your physical mp3 files before doing anything go to Options and check mark the Preserve file date/time setting. Lastly as an FYI I have my library normalized at 93.0dB and that setting has worked out great for me. I’m not an expert at this but I did a lot of research and I’d recommend setting your range between 89.0 and 95.0dB- I wouldn’t go any higher than that. As anything the best way to figure something out is to test and remember changes are lossless!
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