Normalizing music volume

  • Thread starter Thread starter Riggs
  • Start date Start date
R

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...
 
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...)
Click to expand...

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.
 
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...
Click to expand...

dBpoweramp can do this.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
 
Hy,
I'm sure they're all MP# files
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...

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...)
Click to expand...

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

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
 
Thorsten Duhn said:
Hello,


by converting to wave, burn and delete waves?
Click to expand...

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

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

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
 
Riggs said:
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...
Click to expand...

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

--
dadiOH
________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://www.gbronline.com/xico/
_________________________________
 
Riggs said:
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...
Click to expand...

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/
 
Back
Top