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Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: RTj on August 18, 2005, 08:10:08 pm

Title: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: RTj on August 18, 2005, 08:10:08 pm

Is there a prog out there that would normalise an mp3 collection?
As in; have them all the same volume.

Oh, and allow future mp3 files to be added and normalised without rebuilding the entire collection... ?

Times like this I wish I could pogram...    :-[   :(

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: mccoy178 on August 18, 2005, 11:09:24 pm

Researching..........

and..........

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/    :)

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: richms on August 19, 2005, 02:38:35 am

You could just play them thru a limiter plugin for your MP4 player of choice. there isnt a lot of room to move recent music since its pretty much at the limit the whole time, but it would bring the older better mastered stuff up louder in the way you want, and that without damaging the audio files permanantly.

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: Space Fractal on August 19, 2005, 04:56:21 am

I mean bass.dll (I known you use my software, and the dll I use for the player) do not have a normalize, but I try to search for such a feature on thier forum.... I hope for that, because some have requested that.

Otherwice  I  guess should made volume.dat file in a each directory or such, but no plans of that yet.

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: Barry Barcrest on August 19, 2005, 08:17:40 am

bass.dll can display visulatisations.. Using this info for the peaks and troughs it should be possible to set the volume in real time based on how high the peaks go. This is simular to how i was thinking of implimenting it. Although i don't use base.dll, i just couldn't get on with it. I did like the winamp plugin support though....

Actually i have just remebered you can use winamp DSP's with that dll so you could just use one of their normalisers (Audio Compressors actually) like Rocksteady...

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: Space Fractal on August 19, 2005, 08:33:27 am

Thanks for the tip, Barcrest

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: Barry Barcrest on August 19, 2005, 10:55:58 am

http://www.un4seen.com/base.html

All you need is on there but you probably knew about that link already right.

Thanks for the comments  ;) Good luck with base.dll

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: Space Fractal on August 19, 2005, 11:25:46 am

Thanks Barcrest (but the site may been updated, because the base.html dosnet exists anymore).

I have just made all player funtions in a "AMB_play.dll" file wich is a "wrapper" for bass files (AMB2 was made in Blitz Basic).

There WAS a  normalise in bass_fx (was just  named "somebody other"), but I didden't use it. Hope the main thread poster like it, because he allready contacted me in the another thread.

Title: Re: normalise mp3 collection?
Post by: RTj on August 20, 2005, 09:07:03 am

Thanks for the info guys. Its much appreciated.

Space Fractal : I added the AMB_play.dll to my AMB installation but it didn't seem to make much difference, if any, sorry.  :(   I purposely used two songs, one loud and one quite quiet to test it, in theory they should have played at roughly the same volume but... nope.   :'(
I hope the volume normalisation can be implemented into AMB at a later date.  :)

Mccoy178 : Thanks for the pointer to mp3gain, i'll give that a go for now.