Files Playback at Different Volumes

MediaMonkey supports leveling of playback volume for audio files. For this to happen make sure that you enable Play > Level Playback Volume from the Main Menu and that your files have known Track Volume and/or Album Volume. If you still perceive different volumes the following may cause it:

  1. Play > Level Playback Volume from the Main Menu is disabled. Enable it to set MediaMonkey to volume level playback.
  2. Your files don’t have Track Volume or Album Volume. Track Volume will be used when using leveling per Track, but also when leveling per Album and no Album Volume is known. Use Tools > Analyze Volume from the Main Menu on selected files to fix this. Album Volume will only be calculated when an Album has more than 1 file and you’ve selected all files on the Album to be analyzed for volume.
  3. You set MediaMonkey to level playback volume per Album. This will maintain the difference in volume between files on an album. This can work well when playing Albums, but when mixing files from different Albums it can become noticeable. You can change it to per Track under Tools > Options > Volume Leveling from the Main Menu.
  4. Your files obtained from Amazon have a different volume. In this case re-analyze the volume of the affected files. Make sure you disable the option ‘Only analyze files with unknown Leveling Adjustment’ under Tools > Options > Volume Leveling from the Main Menu.
  5. Your files were leveled/analyzed in a version of MediaMonkey prior to MediaMonkey 2.5. In this case re-analyze the volume of the affected files. Make sure you disable the option ‘Only analyze files with unknown Leveling Adjustment’ under Tools > Options > Volume Leveling from the Main Menu.
  6. The values MediaMonkey calculates are not to your liking. You can manually modify the Track Volume (not Album Volume) in the Filelisting in MediaMonkey. Select the Track Volume value and use the F2 key to start inline editing to edit the Track Volume value.
  7. You’re relying on files that have been volume leveled instead of volume analyzed. When files are leveled they can be leveled to different volumes does causing a variation on playback of leveled files. You can still use volume analysis on these files to compensate.

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