How do people handle this? Is there ripping software that will look for the volume peaks and set the volume for each track so the highest peaks are the same? I realize that wouldn't be perfect--across different genres of music especially--but maybe there is some smarter way. I have also heard that doing this can damage the quality of the music, since it may tend to amplify ambient noise, but I sincerely doubt that would bother me as much as having to interrupt dinner to change the volume on the stereo. Apart from grip, I checked Rhythmbox (Sound Juicer?) briefly and it didn't seem to have any such setting either. But maybe I'm blind.
The other way to handle it is in the player, I guess. I have an external USB SoundBlaster sound card that comes with some software that manages the volume from track to track, or so it claims. I kind of doubt it does this dynamically, but rather reads through the tracks and saves metadata in them that it then reads when playing. The software is Windows-only, I'm pretty sure, and I haven't tried it yet. Is there some Linux counterpart?
Thanks a lot, Matt
