Just drag and drop your video files into Sound Normalizer, and it will start analyzing the volume levels. The program seems to be built on, or at the very least modeled after MP3Gain Express For Mac, so for those of us who have normalized our music collection, the interface and simple usability will be very familiar. Sound Normailzer fixes all of that by adjusting the volume of each video to be the same – so you can set your volume once then sit back and enjoy your videos. I have a folder with dozens of music videos that I like to watch from time to time, and often one song will be very quiet and I need to raise the volume to hear it, then the next song will blow the speakers apart because it is so loud. so you will still get an occasional "quiet" song and "loud" song but they will all be closer to the same target level.Different volume levels in videos can be a real pain. basically it will look at a group of files, determine the volume differences, and it will at the same time normalize the files yet preserve relative volume differences between tracks. Mp3Gain also has an "album gain" feature which i think i understand now through trial and error. So basically you can put a tag in the mp3 file (similar to but different from id3 tags) that simply alters the playback gain? is that really how simple it is? it makes sense and it's genius and i guess i'm having a hard time believing it because it's so simple! but i am curious about this whole "gain tag" concept. It's old software but it still works (just like winamp!) but the documentation and help files are missing. i like the way it works so far and i am considering it for full time implementation. So i actually discovered mp3Gain overnight and i've played with it an experimented with it. but my "new music playlist" is something that i curate and archive for myself and i don't have any problem with downloading songs off boobtube so i don't have to listen to four minutes of ads after a 2-1/2 minute song, with very little of that money even making it to the artist in the first place I do my best to spend money on artists that i love, and i do my best to give that money to them directly at shows and on their personal web stores. i saw something like 250 bands at 75 different shows last year, and i donate more to my local independent, non-profit radio station than most people pay for a netflix account. i spend it on t-shirts, CDs, LPs, downloads, and sometimes i just buy my favorite bands a round of beers. Note: as a music lover i can't make a comment about downloading songs off boobtube without addressing the economics. I have the tools and know-how to manually re-dub these. but i would like them to all have the same volume. i want the songs to have quiet parts and loud parts. i don't want a normalizer that changes the volume during a song. i want it to know "this song's average volume is x dB, so increase the volume +y for the duration of this song". i don't want a normalizer that constantly changes the volume during playback. I'd like it to be able to examine the song as a whole and then alter the output volume. but i don't want a generic normalizer i'm actually looking for something that would hopefully work like this: I'm in winamp2 right now and i can't find a normalizer. but downloaded from boobtube or copied from a CD doesn't really matter - a lot of songs from different sources are going to have different recording levels. Typically i just copy the audio for these songs off of boobtube (there are online converters/downloaders out there) to put them in my playlist. i'm less album-focused and more playlist-focused these days, thanks to my local radio station exposing me to so many new bands. Though lately my music habits have changed. My audio player setup is the same as it's been for a decade+ - winamp5 for archived albums, winamp2 for downloaded singles and listening to one-off songs.
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