MP3 music

[alcina]

I have just loaded a bunch of music to my laptop...all the same way. Some songs are really quite while others are really loud. Some are perfect. Is there any way to correct this now that they are loaded or at least some way to set the volume when I do more?

 

[ScubaFreak]

hmmm thats a bit odd,

that happened me once or twice, depending on what software you're using, it gives you the option of recording at different Khz. I was recording at different levels therefore making the sound levels different on loads of songs. But if you say that you recorded 'em all the same way...i'm stumped.
Sometimes the source of the music transferred onto the laptop can also affect quality.

Sorry I couldn't be more help!

SF

 

[jonnythan]

http://www.mp3.com/tech/tutorials_00000004.php

 

[baltimoron]

That happened to me too, I just live with it. I imported my whole Les Mis soundtrack, but you have to turn the volume up before you can really hear it. Startles me whenever the song changes and it is really loud!

 

[FredT]

Either open the MP3s in Sony Sound Forge or better yet capture or rip your audio files as wav files directly. Adjust the volume with Sound Forge to fill the 6db envelope and save as WAV files.

Once all the files have been adjusted you can use Convert to batch convert the wav files to MP3.

Note: Convert takes several hours to a 16:1 compression or better on 32 hours of wave files, but suddenly they all fit on 2 discs.

Sound Forge isn't cheap, but its the best way I've found to do the vinyl to digital conversion. Editing and volume adjustment are simple and straightforward.

FT

 

[diversteve]

I have just loaded a bunch of music to my laptop...all the same way. Some songs are really quite while others are really loud. Some are perfect. Is there any way to correct this now that they are loaded or at least some way to set the volume when I do more?

There's probably no way to correct them now unless you want to reprocess them using a program like Sound Forge or Cakewalk Pro. In the future see if your encoder has a Normalize function - it will do that for you automatically. Read the attached for more info on how this works and the potential consequences.