As someone who downloads or buys their music to listen to via VLC, it’s quite annoying when the volume level between files aren’t consistent. Especially when I’m unable to easily to change the volume like when I’m doing physical labor as an example. So it can go from a perfectly reasonable volume, to damaging my ears, and then to where I can barely hear. I was thinking of going in and manually editing them myself to be consistent amongst each other at some point, but then it got me thinking. Is there an application that will equalize the volume on your audio files for you? If not, would anyone else have a use for one besides me? I’d love to know either way.
That’s the best way. It just adds a ReplayGain tag to the files instead of reencoding them at a different volume.
That’s funny, I prefer the opposite (actually changing bits) because then it works with every player and device.
I do both. I add replaygain metadata to my FLAC library then reencode it to mp3 with the volume normalization baked in to sync to mg phone.