mp3's & Real Jukebox

[2337lover]

Hi All,

I have approx 3000 mp3's on my hard drive. I have my pc hooked up to my stereo.

My problem is w/ the audio levels of my mp3's. They are all over the place! I keep having to raise & lower the volume on my pc/stereo b/c some some are coming out low/high.

Is there a way I can normalize the audio on all my mp3's?

Stumped!

[smurfy]

Hi there.
Well I've only got 1/2 as many (1400 = 5.6Gb) but have same setup - linked to stereo and have noticed the same thing.
I haven't really looked into it but I'm guessing it's the bit rate or sample rate of the MP3 file.
a 128 kbit 44100hz (the "standard" MP3 rates) file may be quieter than one recorded at 160kbit 44100hz

[2337lover]

All my mp3's are encoded @ 128 kbps.

I was told is was dependant on the audio level it ripped at.

Apparently there is a program that can 'normalize' the audio levels of mp3's.
I just don't know what it is!!!

I've noticed that all the mp3's I ripped (approx 2000 @ 128 kbps) are at the same audio level.

[oracle128]

try this (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cvaill/normalize/) or this (http://www.linearteam.dk/normalizer.html)
Hope that helps!

[Marc]

I haven't checked that out those links yet, But I will.

But my thought is this, If you rip an older CD, say something from the 80's, the quality of that CD was not created as good as a CD created now-a-days.

I rip all my CD's at 160, but they do not all play at the same volume level.

So I am definately going to check out these programs. If anyone has any feedback on them, I'd be interested in hearing it.