music on iPod is at different volume levels

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webhead - 12 Feb 2007 02:33 GMT

Hello,

When I download music to my iPod, I noticed that some of the files
play at various volumes. I have to keep adjusting volume on my iPod,
or else I may go deaf.

Is there anyway to make the volume of all of the songs loaded on my
iPod the same level?

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Gregory Weston - 12 Feb 2007 04:52 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> Is there anyway to make the volume of all of the songs loaded on my
> iPod the same level?

Try the Sound Check checkbox in the Playback pane of the iTunes prefs
window. I believe this actually adjusts on of the fields in the ID3 tag
(rather than merely updating something in the iTunes database) so the
iPod should respect it.

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David C. - 19 Feb 2007 19:11 GMT

> Try the Sound Check checkbox in the Playback pane of the iTunes prefs
> window. I believe this actually adjusts on of the fields in the ID3
> tag (rather than merely updating something in the iTunes database) so
> the iPod should respect it.

That is correct. It sets a "Volume" attribute. You can see the value
in the first tab of a song's "Get Info" box in iTunes.

If you turn on SoundCheck in the iPod, these volume levels will be used,
and the levels will be (more or less) equalized.

Some people, however, don't like the algorithm SoundCheck uses. If you
don't, do a VersionTracker search. There are third-party utilities that
will analyze your iTunes collection to equalize the volume levels
(either setting the per-song volume control, or by altering the
SoundCheck-generated levels.)

-- David

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