for xmms the volume normalizer plugin can help. http://www.xmms.org/plugins.php?details=23 on the hardware side... I have a device called a compresser limiter that does essentially the same thing, it's probably a little spendy for just plonking between your sound output and your speakers on random pc's but it's a useful tool for radio-stations, home-theater rigs, and some video conferencing applications (what we got it for). joelja On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Matt Morgan wrote: > The main reason I don't absolutely love digital music is the volume > problem. I ripped everything to ogg vorbis with grip, and the volume of > each song varies so widely that every third song I have to fix the > volume. This is OK on my desktop but it's hard to imagine doing that > with the laptop attached to my home audio system. > > 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 > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
