This isn't ideal though, since it'll always be a concern for the future, and I'll probably lose some quality of the current tracks, plus it'd take forever. I'm genuinely tempted to convert all of my songs to another format either M4A (booo!) or a different variant of MP3. Sound check unfortunately picks up nothing, I guess this is because, as far as iTunes (and everything else that isn't an iPod!) will hear the tracks and not see a problem with the audio levels.The broken track will be consistently loud. For example, a perfectly fine track will jump massively in volume for the last second or two, just before playing a broken track. I think it's a glitch with the iPod where it doesn't like certain types of encoding.I believe it's due to how they're encoded, for example I have recently been given a discography of my friends band, where every single song is effected.
Certain songs (probably less than 2% of my collection) play on my iPod at around four times the volume they do on iTunes, WMP or my phone.Sorry, I think I'm rambling too much, so here's a summary. Plus the added benefit of this comment is I know the tracks I have applied mp3gain too so I can reverse the settings in future if I wish.
This is another reason it's a slow process but I'm happy it is being done correctly. If the mp3 files are already on your Ipod/Itunes then the Ipod and Itunes are not aware that you have altered the MP3 file when you apply the album gain settings, but what I do is to add a small comment "mp3gain" in the comments tag field within itunes and it forces the track to be re-synced next time you connect it up. One small tip if you do go down this route. It's quite a slow process at the moment as I'm working through in small blocks just to keep it neat and tidy. It's all basically about preventing clipping (music hitting max volume and being distorted). I'm going down the mp3gain route (album gain only), which although it does change the file it is only the volume setting and is completely reversable. I'd read that soundcheck was pants and as I have 60gb of tracks dotted around I didn't want to turn soundcheck on to test as it would do the lot. Now I'm relatively happy with the state of the mp3 side of my collection I want to sort out the levels for the ipod. Unfortunately I let a few go when I did the original MP3 rips so I'm "sourcing" some again.Īnyway, I'm rambling. I've now got a nice fat TB drive and steadily sorting out what CDs I have left to FLAC. I was horrified that in the early days I ripped most of my CDs at 128kb and some are still there. As I use the dock out in the car mostly it's not as obvious as when on headphones but it is still there.įor this reason I've decided to revisit my entire collection and "improve" it as best I can. I've also been living with this problem for a while on my 80G Classic.
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