by Gaeta » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:56 am
For what it's worth, MM is an excellent program, but I think sometime is tries to do too much & all the features tend to make it unstable (at times). Volume leveling is an example. Whilst highly desirable so I do it on all my tracks, however I use a program specifically for that purpose because it something that only needs to be done once. I use mp3gain (link below). I just point it at the folders I want leveled, it loads the tracks (including sub-folders), levels all to the decibel setting I specify and optionally (via a options setting) saving leveling information in the file tag (in which case it does not re-level that track again - unless you force it to). Leveled tracks play fine in MM, Winamp & WMP).
From what I have read, several players use this program as their volume leveling engine; I think MM may be one. A big advantage of MP3Gain over MM is that leveling in MP#Gain is completely reversible without any loss in quality. In this context, reversible means you can set tracks to a different db and yes I have done that. That was in early days of using it when I tried different db settings, before settling (finally on 89). I now have over 20,000 tracks leveled this way and MM likes them all.
Of curse, if MM is going to have a feature, it should work correctly so the problem reported needs to be traced and fixed. But, if MM is being silly for you, then this an option that works.
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/For what it's worth, MM is an excellent program, but I think sometime is tries to do too much & all the features tend to make it unstable (at times). Volume leveling is an example. Whilst highly desirable so I do it on all my tracks, however I use a program specifically for that purpose because it something that only needs to be done once. I use mp3gain (link below). I just point it at the folders I want leveled, it loads the tracks (including sub-folders), levels all to the decibel setting I specify and optionally (via a options setting) saving leveling information in the file tag (in which case it does not re-level that track again - unless you force it to). Leveled tracks play fine in MM, Winamp & WMP).
From what I have read, several players use this program as their volume leveling engine; I think MM may be one. A big advantage of MP3Gain over MM is that leveling in MP#Gain is completely reversible without any loss in quality. In this context, reversible means you can set tracks to a different db and yes I have done that. That was in early days of using it when I tried different db settings, before settling (finally on 89). I now have over 20,000 tracks leveled this way and MM likes them all.
Of curse, if MM is going to have a feature, it should work correctly so the problem reported needs to be traced and fixed. But, if MM is being silly for you, then this an option that works.
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/