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Complete Music Library

My first post so, Hey! everyone and I hope the Guru's can advise.

I have a reasonably large music collection that I have acquired from a number of sources  (ripping Vinyl's, CD's, Audio Tapes etc.) and they are all converted to mp3 files residing on one of my HDD's. I have been using  EXPStudio to record the .wav files (Stienberg Clean for the Vinyl's) and then convert the .wav files to mp3 using CDex and mp3Gain. The result is that I have a nice collection but the volume disparity between each Album can be huge. I listen mainly to 'playlists' which consist of my preferred choices from each album but I'm constantly diving for the volume control.

My apologies, this is getting a bit long winded. Bottom line. I want to rework the collection to equalise the volume of each track/album. I can do it with a couple of old (very accurate) VU meters I have but that is going to mean a considerable amount of 'plain and fancy' porking about. How would you people approach the problem?

Thanks in advance

Jon

Complete Music Library

Reply #1 –
Replaygain should do the trick (Link), although you need a player which is "gain-aware"

Complete Music Library

Reply #2 –
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(...) and then convert the .wav files to mp3 using CDex and mp3Gain.


Hmm, if you mp3gain'd all your files, there should'nt be a remarkable difference in perceived volume, since that is what mp3gain was made for (I'm not sure how you actually created the mp3s (because CDex is a CR ripper afaik) and how your exact workflow was)).

.sundance.

Complete Music Library

Reply #3 –
foobar2000 is the perfect tool for this.  Just select the primary directory and apply ReplayGain on an album basis by tags or directories, whichever is better for you.  I am surprised that MP3Gain failed as it does the same thing, but not as accurately as foobar2000.

Cheers 
Nov schmoz kapop.
 

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Reply #4 –
Thanks everyone for your help.
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I am surprised that MP3Gain failed as it does the same thing, but not as accurately as foobar2000.
Y'see, I was'nt paying attention. I used mp3Gain to normalise each Album, not the complete music library, so it did work in that respect. I have just spent some time 'reading the instructions' (heaven forbid) and have achieved a much more satisfying volume equalisation of my complete library.
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(because CDex is a CR ripper afaik)
Well, it can do almost anything from ripping CD's to reconverting .mp3 to .wav etc. Basically, I converted each .wav file to mp3 using it. You can also import files and folders, not just CD's and I considered it to be a more than adequate program for my needs, especially since it's free.
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foobar2000
I'll check it out. I'll probably use it to re-work the virgin files again. Again, thank you.

Jon