I'll also add the tip to NOT use any compression options.
#Ivolume adjust selected songs only windows#
iVolume is Mac-only, but Windows has programs like MP3Gain that do a similar job. I'll agree that Apple's version of this technology sucks, but I'd suggest giving a better program a chance. My collection is mostly classic and alternative rock, not rap, by the way. iVolume fixed almost all of this for me (it can't change levels on tracks with DRM, for instance). My normal shuffle would produce music blaringly loud followed by music startlingly low - because they were on the CD that way. There is no standard for volume levels, so many discs will vary. And starting with CDs from the 90s, the volume gets louder and louder until now. I have CDs in my collection going all the way back to the mid 80s, and the volume level from disc to disc is different.
#Ivolume adjust selected songs only software#
In my opinion, this is not a case of software folks providing something just because they can, it's a real issue. Perhaps I'm thinking of something different than you're imagining.Īlso, I'd ask you to reconsider the usefulness of the tool, even though the method isn't perfect. If anyone else has better ideas, I'm game.Ĭlick to expand.First, I'm curious why you consider this a stupid thing to do. Since newer CDs have much louder mastering than old ones, I needed SOMETHING to balance the levels, and this is the best thing I've found so far. You can even select to judge all songs from one album as a batch, keeping the track levels relative to each other.
IVolume is a much better judge of the files though, using more of an average level analysis to keep things closer. IVolume creates info for the same tag as Sound Check, so you have to turn that feature on in iTunes and on the iPod to make use of it. It's shocking how varied the levels can get with Apple's analysis, with songs on the same album being as much as 10db different.
If you use the program, it will actually show the level that Apple generates with Sound Check in one column, with the level derived by iVolume in another. IVolume is a third-party program that provides Sound Check compatible levels derived from a different algorithm than Apple uses.
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