How do I get all songs to play at a level volume on my ipod?

tigers1122 · Post by **tigers1122** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:50 pm

There are too many options and I can't figure out which one does what for what.

All I want to know is how to do this using MM3 and not why it does this.

Thanks!

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:12 pm

It depends on what iPod model you have.

tigers1122 · Post by **tigers1122** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:19 pm

nohitter151 wrote:It depends on what iPod model you have.

Fifth generation 80 gig

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:01 pm

If that is a classic I think the volume leveling is done internally on the iPod. (check your iPod settings)

tigers1122 · Post by **tigers1122** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:29 pm

nohitter151 wrote:If that is a classic I think the volume leveling is done internally on the iPod. (check your iPod settings)

as in the sound check?

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:07 pm

See here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... vol+volume

schwef · Post by **schwef** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:21 pm

I have used mp3gain to level my entire collection. It no longer matters what you sync to

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

tigers1122 · Post by **tigers1122** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:30 pm

schwef wrote:I have used mp3gain to level my entire collection. It no longer matters what you sync to

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

I have this as well. If I want every song on every album to be the same level would I do track gain or album gain?

thanks doods!

ReD-BaRoN · Post by **ReD-BaRoN** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:48 pm

Track-gain

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:57 pm

I wouldn't do trackgain, because it's bad on some albums. Albumgain is in almost all cases better.

Example: Some volume differences on different tracks of a CD are intended and with trackgain you just remove them. A even worse effect appears if tracks are continuously or when a song is splitted into multiple parts (classical). Then you will hear a change in volume if one trackvolume got raised (because it has a lot silent parts) and the other hasn't.

I do it like this: I use MP3Gain to albumgain all the songs. Then I let analyze them in MediaMonkey. Since mediamonkey syncs the trackgain to the ipod I can now choose between track- and albumgain when using my ipod. With SoundCheck disabled I've album-gain and when I enable SoundCheck I've trackgain.

Big_Berny

schwef · Post by **schwef** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:06 pm

i have used track-gain very successfully -- only a couple of songs that start to soft. Every time i add a batch of songs, i run track gain against all. I have not tried the album gain but the theory from big_Berny makes sense. An album usually will have an avergae sound level across the album

for simplicity i run track gain

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:17 pm

@tigers1122: But to answer you first question: With SoundCheck all sogns have the same volume. So in your case I'd use that.

Post by **Peke** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:24 pm

Use the best that works for you.

Just an reminder: Better CD Players that Supported Peek value scan whole CD to generate Average peak and sample of Average peak is Used to A-B Loop which left you to ser Peak Level on Your Cassette deck to optimal for this recording.

ReD-BaRoN · Post by **ReD-BaRoN** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:24 pm

Big_Berny wrote: I do it like this: I use MP3Gain to albumgain all the songs. Then I let analyze them in MediaMonkey. Since mediamonkey syncs the trackgain to the ipod I can now choose between track- and albumgain when using my ipod. With SoundCheck disabled I've album-gain and when I enable SoundCheck I've trackgain.

Big_Berny

Rigtht, in my case with my Ipod, MM syncs track-gain. Therefore, if I want to listen to an album (with the Artists volume range maintaned) I just turn Soundcheck off.