Normalizing music volume

[Riggs]

Can anyone recommend a good app to normalize the volume of audio files
prior to burning them onto a disk? This is for a friend of mine so it needs
to be something that a real novice computer user can handle. Thanks...

 

[Riggs]

Hello,


what kind of audio files? MP3? Wave? Ogg? WMA?

On the other hand, what cd burning software?
(Maybe OT here, but you search for the simplest solution...)

I'm sure they're all MP# files and I know he uses Windows Media Player to
create them. I think what he wants to do is batch normalization of the
files he's already got on the HD, which I'm sure number in the thousands.
I've suggested using EAC but he won't part with WMP.

 

[Paul Blarmy]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 04:54:16 GMT, Riggs wrote...

Can anyone recommend a good app to normalize the volume of audio files
prior to burning them onto a disk? This is for a friend of mine so it needs
to be something that a real novice computer user can handle. Thanks...

dBpoweramp can do this.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hy,

I'm sure they're all MP# files

for MP3: http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

I think what he wants to do is batch normalization of the
files he's already got on the HD, which I'm sure number in
the thousands.

I've done so with my collection, but it was time eating and
a bunch of work nevertheless. Checking MP3s for integrity would
be a good idea, too. But that would need same more knowledge.
http://www.geocities.com/mp3utility/
http://www.willwap.co.uk/
http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/

On the other hand, what cd burning software?
(Maybe OT here, but you search for the simplest solution...)

and I know he uses Windows Media Player to
create them. [...]
I've suggested using EAC but he won't part with WMP.

His bad choice ;-)
But EAC wouldn't help with this particular problem, too.
(Nero or stuff like that would, I know no good freeware.)

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[Mister Charlie]

Hello,


by converting to wave, burn and delete waves?

You can convert from one format to another. It really is an excellent
and easy-to-use program.

 

[tlshell]

Can anyone recommend a good app to normalize the volume of audio files
prior to burning them onto a disk? This is for a friend of mine so it needs
to be something that a real novice computer user can handle. Thanks...

Is normalizing making the volume equal across the entire audio? If so,
I could use something like that in the future because I am hard of
hearing and about half the time, audio files aren't loud enough, even
though the volume level on my computer is cranked up to 100%.

if anyone knows how to crank up the volume on "Beatnik" files, I've
never been able to hear those at all...

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

You can convert from one format to another. It really is an
excellent and easy-to-use program.

no doubt on that, but I'm not sure that this is what he asked for.
"converting to wave [with normalzing], burn and delete waves" is
the only way I see, dBpoweramp Music Converter could solve the
questioned situation (with knowledge that files are mostly "mp#",
as he answered in another post).

I don't like it's way it *exclusively* takes over context menu,
or has that changed in current versions?

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[downloadingdaddy]

Can anyone recommend a good app to normalize the volume of audio files
prior to burning them onto a disk? This is for a friend of mine so it needs
to be something that a real novice computer user can handle. Thanks...

Hers one that's real easy to use and should get the job done nicely
http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~mp3workshop/

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hy,

Hers one that's real easy to use and should get the job done nicely
http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~mp3workshop/

AFAIK normalizing MP3 is not done without de- and re-encoding,
unlike MP3Gain, which means quality loss (and takes longer).

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[dadiOH]

MP3Gain. But he still needs to be able to think.
http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

If he is making audio CDs (as opposed to MP3), many burners (Nero for
one) have a function to do it. Nevertheless, I would use Gain in
preference to them.

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[John Corliss]

Can anyone recommend a good app to normalize the volume of audio files
prior to burning them onto a disk? This is for a friend of mine so it needs
to be something that a real novice computer user can handle. Thanks...

I haven't used this program and it only works with .mp3 files, but it
might be what you're looking for:

http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

 

[Riggs]

Just wanted to say thanks to all that replied. Am checking out your
suggestions.