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I listen to MP3s in the car and it's annoying when the volume isn't normalized. I can't be fumbling around with the tiny buttons on my MP3 player to adjust the volume while I'm driving. I found mp3gain and used it on a bunch of files and it appears to have worked.

If anyone knows of a better program for normalizing volume of lots and lots of MP3s, post now or forever hold your peace.

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3 Responses to “mp3gain”

  1. May 28th, 2008 at 5:48 am
    Quoth Patrick:

    Why are you looking for something “better”? What's missing in mp3gain? I'm using it for years (`mp3gain -a album/*`). The only thing that would be cool: multi-threading on SMP systems.

  2. May 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am
    Quoth Brian:

    It appears not to have been updated since 2005. I don't know if there was another fork or another program being more actively maintained. It says it uses some statistics to determine how loud a file should be but is it doing it properly? Etc. etc. But yeah it appears to work OK.

  3. June 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 am
    Quoth dr_strange:

    Hi Brian,

    how'bout gnormalize? gnormalize.sf.net

    Regards,

    dr_strange

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