![]() ![]() ![]() King, Everly's, Motorhead, Abba, Cream, Buddy Holly, Santana, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis and Mozart - among others! All very listenable. So my car's MP3 player collection currently includes music from Free, Queen, B.B. All this is easy to discover from the display, with a little trial-and-error. So you can choose a target level which will preserve the sound quality of all tracks (no clipping), let some clip (will cause odd distortion), or set it to keep peaky tracks below clip level - I choose this usually, choosing a target level so that few if any tracks will be affected. It tells you whether that level "clips" the sound peaks (happens a lot on old recordings), and whether the target normalized level will "clip". Once it has analyzed the tracks, it records the current (default) settings in the file headers, and lists them - this never needs to be done again. Its main use (and what I want) is to make any motley collection of music tracks all sound about the same loudness to the human ear. So it can always return to the initial default with no harm done. It does NOT touch the actual music content at all. MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. Keep doing the constant gain edit until you get volumes as low as you want.įirst used this when I was on Win ME, now on Win 10! Works ONLY on MP3s, because what it actually does is change media playback settings in the MP3 file headers. Set slider to lowest amount (on mine this was -12db)Ĭlick the down arrow by 'Track Gain' and make it be 'Constant Gain'Ĭlick 'Constant Gain' (changes all tracks to -12db) Select 'Add folder' (note it will edit your files IN PLACE)Ĭhange "Target 'Normal' Value" to 75 (it won't go lower)Ĭlick 'Track Analysis' (will test all in folder - takes a while if lots of files - skip the following step if your volumes are already less than 75)Ĭlick 'Album Gain' (should be one of the icons on top - makes all in folder 75Ĭlick 'Modify Gain', then 'Constant Gain' So that is the only pain - that you have to work around this limit. Not only does it not increase file sizes, it will do the edits without having to do any conversions to intermediate wave files.Īt first I was confused about how to get it to lower the volume below the target of 75db. So the MP3Gain was the best option by far. Then I tried the Sobolsoft volume program and it puffed the size of my mp3 files to almost twice the original! Furthermore it only was able to do edits by converting to wav files first then back to mp3 (!!!!?) I had trouble getting Audacity to do it - it seemed to only do some of the files in a given directory or collection. ![]() I needed something to lower the volume on a large number of Mp3 files. ![]()
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