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Is there an application that stabilizes the volume level of downloaded mp3 files? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 20 hours ago by pirate2377@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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As someone who downloads or buys their music to listen to via VLC, it's quite annoying when the volume level between files aren't consistent. Especially when I'm unable to easily to change the volume like when I'm doing physical labor as an example. So it can go from a perfectly reasonable volume, to damaging my ears, and then to where I can barely hear. I was thinking of going in and manually editing them myself to be consistent amongst each other at some point, but then it got me thinking. Is there an application that will equalize the volume on your audio files for you? If not, would anyone else have a use for one besides me? I'd love to know either way.

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[–] dr_jekell@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You will want to use something like Foobar2000 to scan the files then write replaygain metadata to each file.

Then you enable replaygain in VLC and it should work as you want.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I might have a mistake in my thoughts/knowledge:

This would be a playback tool dependent solution though, right? Because then it works be not something at least I'd want.

Am I overlooking something? (Except the obvious "keep the original" aspect)

[–] dr_jekell@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Replaygain doesn't change the file itself.

It is a measurement of the files audio volume against a set level. Then the file gets a tag (metadata) for the volume adjustment.

To put it simply: ReplayGain turns up the volume an appropriate amount when playing a relatively quieter song/album and turns down the volume an appropriate amount when playing a relatively louder song/album.

Pretty much any music player should support replaygain including VLC.

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/962a0c/replaygain_the_solution_to_constantly_changing/

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ah but this means if I can't control the client (i.e. because I've setup a streaming server) then it's not a solution for me - but I'd I do then this is the cleaner one because it doesn't reencode the files.

Understood, thank you!

[–] dr_jekell@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I can't say that I haven't thought about audio volume correction for streaming audio.

There must be a way of doing it as Spotify and other services have a version of replay gain.