One of my favorite freeware apps, MP3Gain by Glen Sawyer, has been updated. No new features, only a couple of important fixes in this version. This application is a permanent member of my MP3 burning arsenal. Particularly effective when creating a compilation album for the CD player in my car, it reduces the need to adjust volume from track to track.
Not all CDs sound equally loud. The perceived loudness of mp3s is even more variable. Whilst different musical moods require that some tracks should sound louder than others, the loudness of a given CD has more to do with the year of issue or the whim of the producer than the intended emotional effect. If we add to this chaos the inconsistent quality of mp3 encoding, it's no wonder that a random play through your music collection can have you leaping for the volume control every other track.
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes it makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding. Changes in current version: "Remove tags" no longer crashes on occasion |
I have been using the Beta version since 0.7.1 and have not experienced any problems. Of course, your mileage may vary, so there is a stable non-Beta release 1.0 available for download as well. For those of you that would like to learn more about the program and exactly what it does, Glen has a page here for you to read. Thanks Glen for such a great product!
Source: betanews.com
