Normalize volume of your music library

Jun 27th, 2007 by Jared Schwager , ,

Have you ever found yourself adjusting the volume frequently when you set your MP3 player to shuffle your songs? I’ll show you how to normalize the volume on your music library so you don’t have to reach for that volume button every couple minutes. The application I will be using is MP3Gain.

Normalize Music 1 After you’ve installed MP3Gain, open it. Click the Add Folder button and point it to the folder which contains all your music. MP3Gain will then proceed to scan for all your music.

Once it’s finished scanning all your music, press the Track Analysis button. MP3Gain will now analyze the volume levels of each track. Any tracks that are highlighted in red have a volume level that is too high and may cause distortion when you try to use the equalizer on your MP3 player.

After that’s done, click on Track Gain. The DB of all your songs will be altered to the value in the “Normal Volume” field. Any changes made in MP3Gain can be reversed. To do this, select Undo Gain changes from the “Modify Gain” menu.

That’s all there is to it! Now all your tracks will have a consistent volume level.

4 reader comments

  1. June 28th, 2007 at 2:58 pm Ankesh Kothari says:
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    Cool tip Jared. Is there a software available for adjusting voice in video files too?

  2. June 28th, 2007 at 4:49 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Ankesh, good question. I’ll have to look into that.

  3. October 18th, 2009 at 5:50 pm Mustafa says:
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    Hey thanks for sharing this great program Jared. You didn’t even tell us the best part about this tool; it’s completely lossless. The program doesn’t reencode the files at all. It simply edits the music files directly.

    It gets even better! You can even do an Album based normalization which normalizes the overall volume of the album while maintaining the dynamic range the artists wanted to present to you. Wonderful! This a program by a true audiophile made for everyone who enjoys music.

  4. January 11th, 2011 at 7:08 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    @Mustafa Thanks for sharing that information. I was not aware that it was lossless. I’ll have to add that into this article!

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